Pelosi’s daughter: My family ‘did not talk about impeachment’ at Christmas

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) daughter, Christine Pelosi, said that her family did not talk about impeachment at the Christmas dinner table. 

“We’re probably one of the few families in America who did not talk about impeachment,” Christine Pelosi said Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” in response to a question about how her family spent the holiday.

Nancy Pelosi’s daughter Christine says that her family is “probably one of the few families in America who did not talk about impeachment at the Christmas dinner table.”https://t.co/eICVjZrAnU pic.twitter.com/4p6Bw5U6lI

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The California political strategist and author added that when her family is together during the holidays, they do not talk about politics. Instead, she said, her mother likes to know how her grandchildren are doing, and talk about sports and movies. 

“You have to put politics on the shelf,” Christine Pelosi said. “You can’t obsess about things 24/7, you need to recharge and rejuvenate. … if you don’t build a life with your family then you don’t have a quality of life that you can be out there defending when it’s time to get back to work.” 

This month, the House voted to impeach President Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. However, Speaker Pelosi has withheld the articles from the Senate as leverage in negotiations with Senate Republicans over the rules for the upper chamber’s impeachment trial.

House Democrats opened an impeachment inquiry into the president after a whistleblower complaint alleged that Trump had withheld military aid from Ukraine as he sought to pressure the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, on a July 25 call to try to dig up political dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.