PELOSI IN THE OUTHOUSE

Ditch Nancy, Dems grumble after Ga. flop

WASHINGTON, DC — Weary Democrats are wondering if it is time to ditch Nancy Pelosi as their leader after suffering a stinging defeat in the closely watched special election for a congressional seat in Georgia.

The liberal House minority leader was featured in numerous GOP ads linking her to 30-year-old political novice Jon Ossoff, a Democratic recruit, in the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s vote. Ossoff ended up losing to Republican Karen Handel, 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent.

The race became the most expensive in congressional history, with total expenditures exceeding $50 million.

“Nancy Pelosi has been an effective bogeyman for Republicans for decades, and it just seems like it’s time for her to go,” a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer told The Post.

“A lot of Democrats are tired of her and tired of defending her,” said political analyst Larry Sabato. “When you’re as controversial as Pelosi is, you become pretty well-known and universally disliked. The image of her for the Democrats is just awful.”

Sabato, who heads the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said he heard from several senior Democrats on Tuesday night who were less than pleased with Pelosi’s impact on the Georgia race.

“One called, one e-mailed, say- ing, ‘ We want her out,’ ” he told The Post.

Pelosi (inset), 77, has led the House Democrats since 2003. Her party shed 63 House seats when she was majority leader in 2010 and lost more than 900 races at the state level.

At the beginning of the Trump era, Pelosi planted herself firmly in the resistance and decried efforts to take the Democratic Party in “a new direction” after its decimation in 2016. Yet Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) said the party is in desperate need of fresh faces in its leadership ranks.

“We had good candidates, but they just couldn’t overcome our national brand, which is toxic and damaged,” Ryan told The Post, adding Pelosi would make it “a lot more challenging” for Democrats to flip the House in 2018 if she remains at the helm.

“The perception of Democratic leadership is so bad. It’s so bad that it gets people out of their homes to go vote [Republican],” Democratic political consultant Lachlan McIntosh told The Post. “We gotta address it or we’re going to continue to lose.”

Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC director Corry Bliss told The Washington Times he pauses every morning “to be thankful that the Republican Party still has Nancy Pelosi because Nancy Pelosi is absolutely toxic.”