On a quiet Sunday morning, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat across from a television interviewer and offered something political life rarely grants anyone: a certainty about the future. Democrats, she said, will win back the House in the 2026 midterms, and Hakeem Jeffries will hold the gavel. Such confidence belongs to the long human habit of forecasting power, and it arrives from a partisan voice whose forecast has yet to meet the ballot box. The election, not the interview, will decide whether her certainty was prophecy or only hope.
Pelosi Predicts Democrats Will Retake the House in 2026 and Name Jeffries Speaker
Not if, she said. When.
On a quiet Sunday morning, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat across from a television interviewer and offered something political life rarely grants anyone: a certainty about the future. Democrats, she said, will win back the House in the 2026 midterms, and Hakeem Jeffries will hold the gavel. Such confidence belongs to the long human habit of forecasting power, and it arrives from a partisan voice whose forecast has yet to meet the ballot box. The election, not the interview, will decide whether her certainty was prophecy or only hope.
On Sunday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on ABC's "This Week" with Jonathan Karl and made a bold prediction: Democrats will win back the House in the 2026 midterms, and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York will become speaker.
Asked whether she had ever believed she could work with Donald Trump, Pelosi said yes. Elections are elections, she explained, and their results must be respected, so the instinct is to try to work together. When Karl framed his question around what would happen if Democrats won the House, she corrected him: it is not if, but when.
Pelosi offered advice to the next Democratic speaker facing Trump: do your own thing, and be yourself. She described Jeffries as ready, eloquent, respected by his caucus, and a unifier, and when pressed on whether she doubted he would be the next speaker, she answered simply, "None."
Finally, she discussed how a Democratic House would confront a Republican president. Some of Trump's agenda, she said, can be held up, and the power of the purse is the tool. She also argued that Republicans in Congress have effectively surrendered their role, doing only what the president insists upon, and that this would end once Democrats were in charge.
These remain one partisan leader's forecast and characterization, not evidence. The interview reveals her party's confidence and strategy, but the actual verdict will come at the 2026 midterms and in how a Jeffries-led House, if it comes to pass, deals with Trump.
On Sunday morning, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, sat down with Jonathan Karl on ABC's "This Week" and made a flat prediction: Democrats will take back the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections, and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York will be the one holding the gavel.
The exchange began with a question about whether, over the years, Pelosi had ever believed she could work with Donald Trump. Her answer was yes, of course. Elections, she said, are elections, and you respect the results. In her telling, the instinct is to try to work together.
Then Karl turned to the future. He started to ask what would happen if the Democrats win the House back, and Pelosi cut in to correct him. Not if, she said. When. She added that Democrats will win.
Karl asked what advice she would give the next Democratic speaker on dealing with Trump, noting that she had been in that seat and had done it. Her counsel was brief: do your own thing, and be yourself. She then turned to Jeffries, describing him as ready, eloquent, respected by the members of his caucus, and a unifier.
Karl pressed on whether she had any doubt that the next speaker would be Jeffries. She answered with a single word: none.
The last part of the interview concerned how a Democratic House would actually confront a Republican president. Karl asked whether the party would try to deal with Trump and get something done on other issues. Pelosi said that some of what Trump does can be held up, and she pointed to the House's power of the purse as the tool. She then offered a sharp description of the current Congress: Republicans, she said, have abolished the Congress, doing only what the president insists on. In her words, that will be over once Democrats are in charge.
A few things are worth keeping in view. This is a forecast from a partisan figure, not a result, and nothing in the interview offered polling, district counts, or other evidence behind it. Her claim about Republicans in Congress is likewise her characterization, not a finding. What the interview does establish is how she wants her party to approach the next two years: with confidence about the majority, with Jeffries as the presumptive leader, and with spending authority as the main lever against the White House.
The real answer comes with the 2026 midterm results, and then with how a Jeffries-led House, if it materializes, handles Trump.
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When the Democrats win the House back. We will.— Nancy Pelosi, on ABC's "This Week"
Do your own thing. Be yourself.— Nancy Pelosi, advising the next Democratic speaker
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