Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi said it was the 'three Gs' that have caused white men to desert the Democratic Party.

'They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays and because of God,' Pelosi said. 'God being the woman's right to choose.'

Pelosi sat down with PBS' Judy Woodruff and tried to explain why Donald Trump has resonated so much with white males voters, especially those who have not attended college.

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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi argued that guns, gays and God have turned off white people, especially the poorly educated, from the Democratic Party

Nancy Pelosi's comments mirror what then-Sen. Barack Obama said behind closed doors in 2008 as he tried to explain why people living in Pennsylvania's small towns were voting against their economic interests

'How does Hillary Clinton counter that?' Woodruff asked.

'With an economic agenda to create jobs, good-paying jobs, increasing paychecks,' Pelosi replied.

Pelosi isn't the first Democrat to point to guns and the Bible as to why her party struggles to attract broad swaths of the white American vote.

In 2008, at an off-the-record fundraiser in San Francisco, then-Sen. Barack Obama tried explaining Republicans' pull on those in Pennsylvania and other rust belt states.

'You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them,' Obama told donors. 'And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.'

'And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to runs or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,' Obama said in April 2008.

When his comments came to light, the Democrat took a political hit.

The optics were bad, with Obama making the remarks at a closed-door fundraiser in liberal and snooty San Francisco, California.

And the content was panned by conservatives who felt Obama was digging on two things they held dear.

Clinton, then his political rival, called him an 'elitist.'

But Obama and Pelosi – a Clinton supporter – are largely making the same claims today, which was articulated in the best-selling book 'What's the Matter with Kansas?' that argued that white people were voting against their economic interest because Republicans had cornered the God vote, using issues like gay marriage and abortion.

However the former House Speaker, who had to hand over her gavel to John Boehner in 2011, said she thought she detected a 'softening' among that voting bloc.