Poll: Democrats divided over whether Pelosi should be Speaker

Democratic voters are almost evenly split over whether Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) should be the next Speaker of the House, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday.

The survey, conducted by SSRS, found that among Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents, 44 percent of poll participants said Pelosi was the best choice for Speaker, with 46 percent saying they would prefer a different Democrat.

The survey has a margin of error of 5 percentage points.

Among all voters, 30 percent said Pelosi should be Speaker, and 59 percent said a different Democratic lawmaker would be a better choice.

{mosads}Democratic Reps. Seth Moulton (Mass.) and Filemon Vela (Texas) are among those who have said they plan to oppose Pelosi when the House votes for the Speakership on Jan. 3. Those lawmakers say they expect to rally enough opposition to Pelosi to prevent her from regaining the gavel.

Pelosi, however, remains confident that she’ll be elected to the top post in the chamber.

“I’m just going to say that I will be Speaker,” Pelosi said Wednesday morning.

The CNN poll also found that 44 percent of respondents approved of President Trump requesting Jeff Sessions to step down last week as attorney general, while 49 percent disapproved.

SSRS re-interviewed 677 adults who participated in a nationally representative pre-election survey between Nov. 8 and Nov. 12.