House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Democrat voters on Saturday that if they support the far-left wing of the party in the primaries, they are setting themselves up to lose to President Donald Trump in the general election.
“I just say to all of our friends, you know, you want to go to the left? You want to win the election? Let’s make a decision to win the election. And when you make a decision to win the election, you have to make every decision in favor of winning,” Pelosi told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “We all understand what is at stake.”
Pelosi called government-run health care “lovely in concept,” but “not a winning message,” and said “this is not going to happen.”
Pelosi has repeatedly tried to push back on the far-left candidates running in the Democrat primary, the two most notable of which are Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
“What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi told Bloomberg News in November. “As a left-wing San Francisco liberal I can say to these people: What are you thinking?”
The Daily Wire reported at the time:
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