As Democrats gear up to have the majority in the House, Nancy Pelosi’s odds of being elected Speaker of the House seem to have improved today.  Today, in a closed-door caucus meeting, she won the nomination vote by a vote of 203-32. Now the tougher part will be making it through the House vote in January.

From CNN:

“A small, but vocal, faction of Democrats have been attempting to derail Pelosi’s run for speaker, but she has succeeded in winning over a number of critics in recent days and was expected to easily win the nomination since it required only a majority of House Democrats. The make-or-break moment for Pelosi isn’t expected to come until January, when the full House holds a final floor vote to elect the speaker.”

Pelosi recently remarked that 14 of the 17 people who oppose her are men. When asked if she blamed sexism she said, “You know I never go to that place…if there is misogyny involved in it, it’s their problem, not mine”

Should Pelosi win the job, ABC reminds us this won’t be her first go-round as Speaker:

The California Democrat became the first woman to serve as speaker in 2007 and is now on track to become the first speaker to win back the gavel since Rep. Sam Rayburn of Texas accomplished the same feat in 1955.

Pelosi said she expects President Donald Trump to give her the same respect as speaker she received when President George W. Bush was in office.

“I think that I will say this when I was speaker and President Bush was president he treated me and the office I hold with great respect, he would jovially call me ‘number 3’,” Pelosi said. “We worked together on many issues and I would expect nothing less from this president.”