Nancy Pelosi Is A Genius At This Controversial Workplace Habit

President Joe Biden shocked the world last month when he dropped his reelection bid. According to reports, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was one of the key people in a behind-the-scenes campaign to encourage the president to step aside.

Pelosi has downplayed her influence and has declined to share what she talked about with Biden in private conversations. But it’s clear she is laser-focused on a Democratic win in November and she did not see that happening with Biden: “We did not have a campaign that was on the path to victory,” she told reporters in August.

Being at the center of a monumental U.S. political decision is nothing new for Pelosi, who is currently a Democratic representative from California. Pelosi, who was the first woman speaker of the House of Representatives, has served in Congress under four presidents and brokered sweeping legislation that overhauled health care and consumer and finance protection.

Members of her own party have called her “a heat-seeking missile when it comes to winning congressional races.” Her Republican opponents have called her “one tough cookie.” On social media, people have positively compared her reported influence on Biden to that of a “mobster.” What would Pelosi call herself? A winner.

“I have won nearly all of the legislative battles that I started ― and those that I haven’t I characterize simply as ‘not yet achieved,’” she declares in her new book, “The Art of Power.” It’s a bold claim that her consistently effective caucus leadership backs up.

“[Pelosi] never took anything to the [House] floor she didn’t think she could get through,” Debbie Walsh, the director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, told HuffPost. “She uses both carrot