Pelosi Smart in Keeping Her Reelection Plans Close to the Vest, Strategists Say

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), accompanied by House Majority Whip James Clyburn, (D-S.C.)(L) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), speaks to reporters at the Capitol on Nov. 5, 2021. Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi declined on Dec. 13 to respond to a CNN report that she’s planning to seek another term in the House of Representatives and that she hasn’t definitively ruled out seeking two more years of holding the gavel.

And keeping everybody guessing her intentions is exactly what she should do, political strategists say.