--- title: Nancy Pelosi Hints Broadly at Hillary Clinton Endorsement description: House Minority Leader hints that she prefers a woman. canonical: https://time.com/4153228/hillary-clinton-nancy-pelosi-endorsement/ author: Jay Newton-Small article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-21T10:00:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:53.300Z article:section: Politics og:title: Nancy Pelosi Hints Broadly at Hillary Clinton Endorsement og:description: She's only endorsed two candidates in her long career. og:url: https://time.com/4153228/hillary-clinton-nancy-pelosi-endorsement/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2a14ef84e94de1c/698875d7bc6cfce35b3dae55/hillary-clinton-nancy-pelosi.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., introduces presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to the press for her on the Iran nuclear deal following her meeting with House Democrats during their weekly caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tues og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nancy Pelosi Hints Broadly at Hillary Clinton Endorsement twitter:description: She's only endorsed two candidates in her long career. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2a14ef84e94de1c/698875d7bc6cfce35b3dae55/hillary-clinton-nancy-pelosi.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Nancy Pelosi Hints Broadly at Hillary Clinton Endorsement > Sponsored content. 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Watch the top 10 moments from Hillary Clinton's career in politics._  by [Jay Newton-Small](https://time.com/author/jay-newton-small/)  ## Jay Newton-Small Dec 21, 2015 10:00 AM UTC  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., introduces presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to the press for her on the Iran nuclear deal following her meeting with House Democrats during their weekly caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., introduces presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to the press for her on the Iran nuclear deal following her meeting with House Democrats during their weekly caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Bill Clark—CQ-Roll Call  by [Jay Newton-Small](https://time.com/author/jay-newton-small/)  ## Jay Newton-Small Dec 21, 2015 10:00 AM UTC Only twice in her long career in Democratic politics has Nancy Pelosi endorsed someone for president. The first was California Gov. Jerry Brown in 1976 and the second was former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt in 2004\. Both were mentors to her. But this cycle, the House Democratic leader says she plans on endorsing a candidate. Who? She won’t quite say, sitting under a painting in her Capitol office of San Francisco Bay by John Hultberg on loan from the Young Museum, because she’s “under the dome” where she doesn’t mix politics and policy. But Pelosi does hint broadly on who she might endorse (hint, it’s a woman). “I will say this that I’m not sure every body has the fullest appreciation of what it would mean to have a woman as our candidate for president who is so qualified to be president,” Pelosi mused in an interview with TIME for a Q&A running in out Year Ahead edition (on stands this week). “We want to elect the best possible person; she happens to be a woman. What that confidence inspires in people is immeasurable.” Pelosi says her experience rising to leader was striking, “what it said to girls and young women about what the possibilities were for them. This is going to have an impact not only to our own country but the entire world in the same way the election of Barack Obama did in term of having a minority president and the message that carried.” Clearly, Pelosi is strong leaning towards fellow Maryland Martin O’Malley (no, not really). 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