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Demonized or Celebrated, Pelosi Stands Firm and Refuses to Agonize

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) with Mary Gay Scanlon, a Democrat running in Pennsylvania's Fifth Congressional District, at a panel of women running for Congress in Philadelphia, Oct. 13, 2018. Pelosi, a villain to Republicans and the top fund-raiser for Democrats, tells women: “Don’t let them think you are running away.” (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)