Republicans Already Miss Their Old Campaign Foil: Nancy Pelosi

“In some ways, when she’s gone, they will miss her a lot,” former NRCC Chair Steve Stivers told NOTUS.

Nancy Pelosi

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks to The Associated Press at the Capitol in Washington. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

To hear the GOP copywriters tell it, Democrats are weak on crime. They support an open border. Inflation is all their fault. And they’re stoking absurd fears that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.

If there’s something negative to say about Democrats, voters in competitive districts will likely hear it on one of the ads playing around the clock less than a week before Election Day.

But for all the attacks, there’s one charge that’s lost its luster, the one that accuses vulnerable Democrats of being in cahoots with the worst Democrat of all: the one, the only, Nancy Pelosi.