Pelosi, Who Said Democrats Don’t Support Socialism, Would Support Sanders as Nominee

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said Wednesday she would be comfortable with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) as the 2020 Democratic nominee, after saying last year her party did not support socialism.

With Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, favored to capture the nomination, Pelosi replied "yes" to a reporter asking if she would accept him as the party's standard-bearer.

LINK: Nancy Pelosi says she doesn’t mind Bernie Sanders

as Democratic nominee

However, Pelosi told 60 Minutes last year that the left-wing economic system embraced by Sanders didn't comport with her views.

"When Medicare was done by the Congress at the time, under Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan said, ‘Medicare will lead us to a socialist dictatorship.' This is an ongoing theme of the Republicans," Pelosi said. "However, I do reject socialism as an economic system. If people have that view, that's their view. That is not the view of the Democratic Party."

Read the rest of the story HERE.

If you like what you see, please "Like" us on Facebook either here or here. Please follow us on Twitter here.