"Democrats, please do not distance yourselves from Nancy Pelosi. She is a wonderful person whose ideas & policies may be bad, but who should definitely be given a 4th chance. She is trying very hard & has every right to take down the Democrat Party if she has veered too far left!" he tweeted.
Republicans have tried to tie Democratic candidates to Pelosi, who is seen by some in her party as standing in the way of younger leaders, in the lead up to the midterm elections in November.
Centrist and far-left Democratic candidates have spoken out against Pelosi becoming House speaker, which she has said she intends to run for, if Democrats retake majority in the fall.