House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is capitalizing on her explosive meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office the other day — in which she refused to budge on border wall funding — by sending out fundraising emails.
Both Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) met with Trump on Tuesday at the White House to discuss whether or not they could reach a budget agreement before federal funding expires and a government shutdown commences.
And now Pelosi — who is still trying to wrangle all the Democratic votes necessary to send her back as speaker of the House in January — is using her resistance to Trump, the border wall and border security to fundraise.
“Never in my life have I backed down from a fight,” Pelosi wrote in an email for the Democratic Party, which The Hill obtained.
“Which is why, after President Trump just: threatened to shut down the government over his immoral border wall; tried to blame a shutdown on our Democrats; and continues to mislead the American people, I’m fighting back with a vengeance — and personally triple-matching all Democratic membership renewals until midnight to make sure we stop him and his Republicans’ disastrous shutdown,” Pelosi added.
“I’m fighting back with a vengeance — and personally triple-matching all Democratic membership renewals,” she wrote.- READ MORE