Like his mentor, the former speaker, Aguilar is building support from the bottom up, starting with a vow to flip five GOP-held seats in his home state.
There’s another reason, however, why Pelosi is so enamored with Aguilar — he’s a House guy.
House members, Pelosi said, “either come and make a commitment to stay or they come and use it as a stepping stone for something else.” “I’ve had some where I’d say, ‘Oh, please don’t go,’ whether it be a woman or a minority or something because we work hard to increase our diversity,” she said.He doesn’t deny designs on one day following Pelosi’s path all the way to the speakership — “you never know what the future holds” — but for now dutifully says he wants “a front row seat for Hakeem to be speaker,” alluding to House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Aguilar has also bonded with his own generation of 40-somethings in the California delegation. “He’s able to manage everyone’s competing priorities, holding us together during often turbulent times,” said Rep. Mike Levin , a class of 2018 member who’s not looking to leave the House. Pelosi is more cautious about California’s role flipping the House, only allowing that the state alone “can come very close” to making the difference. She frets about losing Democratic-held seats in other states, recounting her own first rise to state power as a lawmaker. It was 2000 and she helped engineer a series of victories in California only to see House Democrats lose ground in other states and remain out of power another six years.
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