Ivanka’s Emails, Rep. Marcia L. Fudge Endorses Pelosi, & Thanksgiving

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in an unmistakable show of
political strength Tuesday, cut a deal to sideline a potential
challenger, won new confidence from her party’s resurgent left
flank and earned high praise from her party’s most influential
figure, former president Barack Obama. Together, the developments
buoyed Pelosi as she fights to repel a small group of challengers
inside the Democratic caucus who want to force a leadership
shake-up after 16 years with the Californian at the helm. One of
them was Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-Ohio), who left Washington last
week planning to take the Thanksgiving holiday to ponder a run
against Pelosi for speaker. But her dalliance ended Tuesday, when
Fudge said she would support Pelosi after the minority leader
agreed to make Fudge chairman of a resurrected subcommittee on
elections and pledged that “the most loyal voting bloc in the
Democratic Party, black women, will have a seat at the
decision-making table.”