House Speaker Nancy Pelosi downplayed her and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning victories in November’s midterm elections, saying a “glass of water” could have won the heavily Democratic districts.

“When we won this election, it wasn’t in districts like mine or Alexandria’s. And she’s a wonderful member of Congress, I think all of our colleagues will attest,” the California Democrat said during a talk Monday at the London School of Economics, according to Newsweek.

“But those are districts that are solidly Democratic. This glass of water would win with a D next to its name in those districts,” she said as she hoisted a glass of water.

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, went from waitress to congresswoman after defeating longtime Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary last June. She beat her Republican opponent in the midterm elections to become the youngest woman elected to Congress.

Ocasio-Cortez and other newly elected Democrats brought with them a progressive agenda that calls for Medicare for all, free college tuition, an increase in the minimum wage and a need to fight climate change.

But Pelosi, 78, warned Democrats about tacking too far to the left, saying “our message, our progressive message, is down the middle.”

Pelosi said the policies of Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives are widely accepted in heavily Democratic districts, like hers which she won with more than 80 percent of the vote, “but that’s now where we have to win the election.”

She said she’s not suggesting her congressional colleagues “curb those enthusiasms” but focus on the goal of winning because so much is at stake.

“Reach for the moon. Put out there what you want, go for it, talk about it. But when we have to go into the districts that we have to win, we have to cull that with which we have most in common with these people,” Pelosi said, adding that Democrats have to show Americans they have their back.

“When we win, and we have the White House, and we have that, then we can expand our exuberances to some other things,” she continued.

Pelosi, who was elected for the second time as speaker in January, said she will compare her liberal qualifications with anyone.

“Now, I’m a liberal from San Francisco,” she said. “I can compare my liberal credentials across the board. And I said to them, anything that you’re about, I got that down in my basement 25 years ago. Single payer, all of this. Been there, done that, pushing a stroller many decades ago with all of that, so I share those values.”