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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would like to retire from Congress and is only staying in office at the behest of political donors, her daughter said. 

“She would retire right now, if the donors she has didn’t want her to stay so badly. They know she wants to leave, though,” Alexandra Pelosi told the conservative website Big Government. “They think she’s destined for the wilderness. She has very few days left. She’s 71, she wants to have a life, she’s done. It’s obligation, that’s all I’m saying.”

{mosads}In a follow-up text message to Big Government, Alexandra Pelosi said she had not discussed her take on the situation with the minority leader.   

“I have never talked to Nancy Pelosi about any of this,” she wrote in the text. 

Pelosi’s colleagues in the Democratic Party haven’t given any indication that they think she’s headed for retirement. They have expressed optimism that they can retake the House majority in November and return the Speaker’s gavel to Pelosi. 

“I think [Pelosi] will go down in history as one of the finest Speakers that we have ever had, and she is going to continue to be, in the future, one of the great Speakers that we’ve ever had,” President Obama said during a fundraiser in April.