“The Republican Party has been hijacked, and it’s now a cult, and they should take it back because a republic needs a strong Republican Party,” Pelosi said.
The California Democrat said the GOP has done “great things” while in leadership and provided for the country but said “what now?” in reference to Trump-era politics.
“So, in any event, we just have to win the election,” she said.
“They have told me, some of the Republicans, ‘you have to beat them in the general because we can’t beat them in the primary.
And then we will come back to our debate on the issues,’” Pelosi said of Trump and his new running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio.).
Pelosi and Trump have traded insults for years now. As one of the most outspoken critics of the former president while he was in office, Pelosi’s book details her experience inside the Capitol on Jan.
6, 2021, when Trump supporters came looking for her.
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