"I'm a street fighter. They would have had a battle on their hands."

On her 100th day as speaker of the 117th Congress, Nancy Pelosi discussed the dramatic events that opened her tenure, when a mob that stormed the Capitol wanted to kill her. "That's what they were setting out to do," she told USA TODAY, if her security agents hadn't managed to evacuate her from the House chamber in time. Asked if that frightened her, she replied, "Well, I'm pretty tough. I'm a street fighter. They would have had a battle on their hands." Besides, she said with a laugh, lifting a foot clad in her classic 4-inch-high stilettos, "I would have had these" to use as weapons.
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