WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi thinks the more the merrier when it comes to Democrats challenging Hillary Clinton.
“I think it’s very healthy for a party to have an exchange of ideas and to have a bench — especially when we’re talking about leadership that comes after, and so I don’t think that anybody who is running for president should fear having someone else run for president,” she told reporters Thursday.
Pelosi went further, saying, she thinks it is important for others to run, “so that they can engage in the marketplace of ideas, which is what an election is all about, and I have every confidence that every person that you have named and others who have named themselves or yet to come will enliven the debate and that will be wholesome. If we don’t have it, we’ll just get moving with what we have.”
Democratic Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for the presidential Democratic nomination. He is currently the only the major member of the party challenging Hillary Clinton.