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Last week’s violent attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, will have “zero impact” on next week’s midterm elections, elections strategist Craig Keshishian told The Epoch Times.
“It’s just not on the radar screen of most folks,” said Keshishian, who was educated at Cornell, Princeton, and Yale Law School, and served on the White House staff for President Ronald Reagan. “The Democrats would like to see an impact but there’ll be no impact.”
More pressing issues are on people’s minds, including crime, and surging inflation and interest rates, according to Keshishian.
Pelosi, 82, was bludgeoned with a hammer during a home invasion Oct. 28 at the couple’s San Francisco home, police and prosecutors reported.
He sustained injuries and underwent surgery for a fractured skill but is expected to make a full recovery.
David Wayne DePape, 42, was arrested after the attack and later charged with one count of assault of an immediate family member of a U.S. official—which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison—and kidnapping, according to the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
DePape was reportedly homeless and living in a yellow school bus in front of the Berkeley home of his ex, a progressive-liberal nudist activist, according to journalist Michael Schellenberger who said he went to the home.
