Trump: "I would help Nancy Pelosi" if she needed votes for the Speaker of the House

President Trump said Saturday morning that he would help minority leader in the House, Nancy Pelosi, to become Speaker of the House in January if she failed to garner enough votes in her caucus. Several newly elected Democrats, as well as some current members of Congress, have declared that they would not vote for Pelosi.

"I would help Nancy Pelosi if she needed votes, she might need it, I'll do her a wonderful job," Trump said as he left the White House for California Saturday morning. "I like it, you can believe it, I love Nancy Pelosi."

Democrats should vote for their party leader later this month, and the Speaker's vote will take place when the new Congress is sitting in early January. If Pelosi fails to get enough Democratic votes, she may need Republican voices in January to become president.

In his comments to reporters on Saturday, Trump compared Pelosi's problems during his conference to critics he receives, which he described as "presidential harassment."

"Well, in a way, her own party is harassing her, and no one else should be president," said Trump. "I already have a lot of voices, if she needs voice, if she asks me, I'll give her the voice to put her above the hierarchy."

He also tweeted offering his help to Pelosi on Saturday morning. "I can get Nancy Pelosi as many votes as she wants for her to be Speaker of the House – she deserves this victory, she deserved it – but some members of her party are trying to Take it away. She will want to win! " Mr. Trump wrote.

He tagged the representative Tom Reed in the tweet. Reed, co-leader of the bipartite problem-solving discussion group, said he would vote for Pelosi as president if she agreed to revise the rules of the House.

"I would be ready, as a Republican in the House, to support a presidential candidate, including Nancy Pelosi, who supports these rule reforms," ​​said Reed at an event organized for The Hill, sponsored by the School of Public Affairs of the American University. Kennedy's political union Friday.

Mr Trump told reporters Saturday that he might be able to get Pelosi's support from moderates like Reed.

"I'm not saying that I get them on the super-conservative side, but maybe even that I get them from there, but I do not think she would need too much." But whatever the number of votes that she needs, if she counts 50 or 10 or 2 or 1, she has them from me, so tell her opponents that they're wasting their time, "he said.

Pelosi told reporters On Thursday, she intends to win the presidency with Democratic votes and will not accept Republican help.

"Oh you like it, no," she said. "Never never again."

Trump has often criticized Pelosi before the mid-term elections. In his statements of Republican candidates, he often accused their Democratic opponents of being controlled by Pelosi. In August, he wrote a sarcastic tweet urging the Democrats not to stand out from Pelosi.

"He is a wonderful person whose ideas and politics may be bad, but who needs to be given a 4th chance." She does her best and has every right to overthrow the Democratic Party if she is too turn left! " Mr. Trump wrote.