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‘Where is Nancy?’ intruder shouted during attack on Pelosi’s San Francisco home
Multiple news outlets are now reporting that the person who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s home and attacked her husband Paul Pelosi shouted, “Where is Nancy?”
Here’s CNN with the new detail:
The assailant who attacked Paul Pelosi was in search for the Speaker of the House, a source tells @jamiegangel. The intruder confronted the speaker’s husband in their San Francisco home shouting “where is Nancy, where is Nancy?”
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) October 28, 2022
Key events
Helicopter footage of the Pelosis’ San Francisco home appears to show a window broken on a door:
Punchbowl News reports that the presence of the Capitol police in California is relatively recent:
U.S. Capitol Police opened field offices in Florida and California after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. So USCP was able to get involved with the incident at Pelosi’s house quickly.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 28, 2022
Top House Republican Kevin McCarthy has spoken to Nancy Pelosi about the attack on her husband, according to a spokesman.
“Leader McCarthy reached out to the Speaker to check in on Paul and said he’s praying for a full recovery and is thankful they caught the assailant,” McCarthy’s spokesman Mark Bednar said.
McCarthy, who represents the area around the city of Bakersfield in California’s Central Valley, is poised to take over as speaker of the House if Democrats lose their majority in the upcoming midterms.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports the person suspected of attacking Paul Pelosi is David Depape of Berkeley, California.
Berkeley is just across the San Francisco Bay from the city Nancy Pelosi has represented in Congress since 1987.
More Republicans have condemned the attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Here’s Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate:
Horrified and disgusted by the reports that Paul Pelosi was assaulted in his and Speaker Pelosi’s home last night. Grateful to hear that Paul is on track to make a full recovery and that law enforcement including our stellar Capitol Police are on the case.
— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) October 28, 2022
And Texas’s Republican senator Ted Cruz:
What happened to Paul Pelosi last night is horrific.
Heidi & I are praying for him & Nancy & the entire Pelosi family. May God’s protection be upon them.
We can have our political differences, but violence is always wrong & unacceptable.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 28, 2022
CNN reports that the Capitol Police have obtained video of the attack on Paul Pelosi in San Francisco:
The Capitol Police are considering increasing their protection of congressional leaders in response to the attack on Paul Pelosi, CBS News reports:
A senior congressional source familiar with the matter tells CBS News @CapitolPolice is currently considering additional protection for families of Congressional leadership in response to the attack on Paul Pelosi.
— Michael Kaplan (@mkaplantv) October 28, 2022
‘Where is Nancy?’ intruder shouted during attack on Pelosi’s San Francisco home
Multiple news outlets are now reporting that the person who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s home and attacked her husband Paul Pelosi shouted, “Where is Nancy?”
Here’s CNN with the new detail:
The assailant who attacked Paul Pelosi was in search for the Speaker of the House, a source tells @jamiegangel. The intruder confronted the speaker’s husband in their San Francisco home shouting “where is Nancy, where is Nancy?”
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) October 28, 2022
The suspect who attacked Paul Pelosi was apparently looking for his wife, Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi, ABC News reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The suspect entered their home through a sliding glass door, according to ABC. Police have not released details about the person arrested for the assault.
The Washington Post reports that while Nancy Pelosi, who occupies a leadership post that is second-in-line to the presidency, has a protective detail, her husband does not unless he is with his wife.
With Americans soon heading to the polls in the midterm elections, it’s worth noting that the majority of states have passed new laws in the wake of the 2020 election that Ese Olumhense of Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting finds amounts to one of the biggest voter suppression threats in recent memory:
Since the 2020 election, lawmakers in all but eight states have attempted to pass laws that would create new election investigation agencies, establish criminal penalties for election offenses or further empower law enforcement officials to investigate such crimes, according to an analysis by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
The proliferation of election crime legislation represents the most intense voter suppression threat in decades and comes in direct response to former president Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was fraudulent.
In the last two years, at least 130 bills have been introduced across 42 states that would increase the involvement of law enforcement in the voting process, the analysis shows. Of those bills, 28 have passed in 20 states.
Some of these efforts have grabbed attention individually, like Georgia’s law making it a crime to hand out food or drinks – even water – to voters waiting in line or Florida’s creation of an entirely new law enforcement agency to police elections, the office of election crimes and security, which has already been criticized for bringing flimsy prosecutions.
Reveal’s first-of-its-kind analysis shows those bills are part of a larger movement, mostly led by Republican state lawmakers and fueled by conspiracy theories. While some of those efforts have so far failed, they show no sign of relenting, as the myth of voter fraud has become a central GOP platform.
According to the Associated Press, sources familiar with the investigation say Nancy and Paul Pelosi’s home in San Francisco was specifically targeted for attack.
The assailant who left Paul Pelosi “severely beaten” was taken into custody. No details have been released about the suspect. The San Francisco police department will have a press conference about the attack at 12.30pm eastern time, which this blog will cover.