House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said in a new interview that Democrats suffered from "overconfidence" in 2016 because they could not believe anyone would vote for Donald Trump.
Pelosi spoke with Bay Area news station KTVU about her career in politics and the state of the Democratic Party after a devastating setback in 2016.
"The 2016 election, what do you think the lessons are? What did Democrats not understand that led to the results?" anchor Ken Wayne asked.
"I personally did not understand that the American people would vote for somebody as, shall we say, personally inimical to our values, in terms of how you talk about women and treat women," she said. "That's just my own thing ... In terms of the presidential [race], I think they thought the same thing. Maybe there was overconfidence, that 'who would vote for him?'"
Pelosi said Trump was "not going to be president of the United States" before the election.
She said Democrats need to be "very positive" about their agenda in their bid to recapture Congress.
