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“If Hillary had won, I was ready to go home,” she told reporters Friday during a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast in Washington, D.C., according to Politico. "None of us thought Hillary would win. We all knew she would win."

“It was really shocking that somebody like Donald Trump could be president of the United States. … But anyway, that motivated me to stay.”

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Pelosi, who was a driving force behind enacting ObamaCare in 2010, said she feels responsible to fight Republican efforts to repeal and replace the healthcare law now.

“If [Clinton] were there, then I would not worry about that,” said Pelosi, who was House Speaker during ObamaCare’s passage.

Pelosi said she is now making decisions "one day to the next."

The veteran California lawmaker survived a challenge to her spot as minority leader after the election, defeating Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio).

House Republicans debuted their long-awaited legislation for repealing and replacing ObamaCare late Monday.

Pelosi has blasted the legislation, called the American Health Care Act, and on Tuesday said it would cost tens of millions Americans their healthcare coverage.

“It will be the biggest transfer of wealth from low-income and middle-income people to wealthy people in our country,” she said on “CBS This Morning." "Show us the numbers as to how many people will be thrown off. It couldn’t be worse.”

Trump and GOP leaders in Congress are pushing for quick action on the controversial replacement strategy.

But some conservative Republicans have balked at the details, with many charging a refundable tax credit for helping people get health insurance is a “new entitlement."