Pelosi vows House will promote its own 'non-menacing' 2020 agenda regardless of presidential nominee
By Mike Lillis - 02/27/20 12:57 PM EST
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that House Democrats will run on their own policy agenda in the lead-up to November, even if it means breaking from the platform of the party's presidential nominee.
The issue of 2020 messaging has come under the spotlight with the surging campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a liberal icon whose left-leaning platform — including policies like "Medicare For All" and the Green New Deal — has energized progressive Democrats but has also sparked waves of panic among more centrist lawmakers fighting for reelection in battleground districts.
Appearing to choose her words carefully, Pelosi said Democrats won control of the House in 2018 by pursuing a liberal but "non-menacing" policy agenda, and will press a similar message this year.
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