GOP Seizes On Bright Comments To Pressure Democrats On Pelosi

A conservative House Democrat’s statement that he won’t support Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for another term is ramping up pressure on other vulnerable incumbents who have been dodging the question.

Republicans have seized on the comments by freshman Rep. Bobby Bright (D-Ala.), who told a local television station on Thursday that neither Pelosi nor House Republican leader John Boehner (Ohio) would get his vote in January. While the defection is the first by an incumbent Democrat, it could complicate Pelosi’s bid to keep the Speaker’s gavel if her party retains a slim majority in the House after Election Day.
“It certainly puts pressure on other Democrats to follow suit,” said Andy Sere, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “Their excuse kind of evaporates when one of their colleagues takes the ball and runs with it.”

Sere added that Republicans aren’t letting Bright off the hook. “We don’t trust Bobby Bright to remain true to his word,” he said.

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