The Democratic Party does not need to prioritize new leadership, says House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi rebuffed questions from NBC host Chuck Todd on Sunday about whether her party needs new faces at the top to grapple with the challenges presented by President Trump and the current political climate.

"Does the Democratic Party need new leaders to touch base on [issues where Trump's message resonated]?" Todd asked, citing a recent speech by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) calling for dramatic changes to her party after Democrats' failure to adequately appeal to Americans in the 2016 race. "Whether it's Hillary Clinton, yourself, Chuck Schumer, you've all been in power a long time, and there was a rejection of that in the 2016 election," Todd said to Pelosi. "Do you accept that?"

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.