Pelosi’s daughter: My mom is ‘unfazed’ by Dem critics

Alexandra Pelosi, a filmmaker and the daughter of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), says her mom is “totally unfazed” by criticism being pointed her way from fellow Democrats.

“I understand why you have to write it because it’s a sexy headline, but it’s not real. It’s what Trump would call ‘fake news,’ ” Alexandra Pelosi said when asked how she feels about her mother taking heat from within her own party.

Earlier this week, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), who challenged Nancy Pelosi for House minority leader, said on CNN that the 15-term congresswoman is more toxic in “some areas of the country” than President Trump.

{mosads}“I think that in certain areas, like in some of these special election districts, it doesn’t benefit our candidates to be tied to her,” Ryan said.

“I’m saying this respectfully,” Alexandra Pelosi, a 46-year-old Manhattan-based filmmaker, told ITK on Friday. “I don’t think that people working inside the bubble have any grasp of how irrelevant the catty, cable news catfights look to the outside world.”

“Nancy Pelosi was elected with two-thirds of her caucus. What does that mean? That means that one third of her caucus did not support her. Who are those 12 people who showed up at a meeting yesterday to oppose her? Twelve of the people who didn’t support her! It’s called democracy. Duh, that’s not news,” Pelosi said.

“It may be the big story when her leadership was threatened — I don’t think it was threatened if she got two-thirds of the vote,” Pelosi added.

“I am not a Pelosi apologist, even though my last name is Pelosi,” the film pro said with a laugh.

Noting she’s a Manhattan resident who’s “not at all in the Washington political industrial complex” and “not qualified to make comments about the fate of Nancy Pelosi,” the lawmaker’s daughter added: “I’ll tell you, I was out with her last night. I think she’s completely unfazed by—,” before stopping herself to add, “haters gonna hate.”

The former NBC news producer and Emmy nominee, for 2002’s “Journeys with George,” is gearing up for the release of her latest documentary, “The Words That Built America.” The film features a staggering number of famous faces — including all six living presidents, six vice presidents, 40 senators, and countless celebrities and journalists including Meryl Streep, Kid Rock, Morgan Freeman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Dwayne Johnson, among many others — reading the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights aloud. The HBO documentary premieres on July 4 at 7 p.m. and will also be available to non-HBO subscribers on the premium cable network’s website and YouTube channel.

Alexandra Pelosi also decried her last name being dubbed a “curse word,” saying ads linking her mom to Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s 6th District special election didn’t necessarily turn voters off. GOP candidate Karen Handel won the runoff on Tuesday.

“I don’t believe that Pelosi is a curse word. I don’t believe that trick works. The playbook of demonizing Pelosi doesn’t really work,” she told ITK. “That’s not why [Ossoff] lost the election. He lost the election because people liked [Handel]. It doesn’t mean they hate Pelosi because they didn’t vote for him.”

“I say this as a media consumer,” Pelosi said. “There’s a reason why people don’t trust the news. They think they’re being conned into clickbait.

“If Ossoff had won, then what would it have been? That Nancy Pelosi’s the one, future Speaker? These stories come and go.”