Pelosi: Any Democratic candidate 'would be a better president' than Trump


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has faith in all of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, telling CNN that any one of them "would be a better president" than President Trump.
There are now eight candidates in the running for the Democratic nomination, and Pelosi said she is "grateful" to all of them for "putting themselves on the line, putting forth their ideas." She's certain of one thing: Democrats "have a better vision for America, and we must defeat Donald Trump, who does not share a vision that is about unity and unifying the country."
Pelosi said she "can't even envision a situation" where Trump would be re-elected, but Democrats still "must be unified in making sure that he does not have a second term."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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