Nancy Pelosi is attempting to put distance between her party and members of the caucus who are making noise about impeachment and radical immigration policies that Donald Trump warned about when he campaigned against Democratic control of the House.

Pelosi in a weekend interview mocked Democrats embracing impeachment and the abolition of ICE, telling the New York Times rhetorically, 'Yeah, and I have those who want to be for impeachment and for abolishing ICE.

'Two really winning issues for us, right?' she said. 'In the districts we have to win? I don’t even think they’re the right thing to do.'

The leading candidate for House speaker in January meanwhile compared Trump to fascist leader Benito Mussolini saying that like the Republican president, 'he didn’t care what they said about him, as long as they were talking about him.'

Nancy Pelosi is attempting to put distance between her party and members of the caucus who are making noise about impeachment and radical immigration policies that Donald Trump warned about when he campaigned against Democratic control of the House

Pelosi is on her way to becoming speaker of the House for a second time with the assistance of President Trump, who says he'll whip votes for her among Republicans.

Republicans will no longer hold a majority of seats in the new Congress after losing at least 35 races in the mid-terms. Democrats needed just 23 wins in red districts to flip the balance of power.

The current minority leader in the House, Pelosi is seeking to become speaker in the January vote.

First she has to clear a Nov. 28 vote from within her caucus, and she could face significant opposition. Ohio congresswoman Marcia Fudge could run against her in response to demands, mainly from the party's freshman class, for new leadership.

Senior Democrats expecting to lead influential committees have put their weight behind Pelosi, including Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, and Richard Neal, the top Democrat on Ways and Means.

Trump also gave Pelosi his backing the day after the mid-terms, saying first on Twitter and then to reporters that she deserved the job and believes he can work with her.

He told DailyMail.com at a news conference that Pelosi had not promised him anything in a congratulatory phone call and they did not discuss the possibility that Democrats would go for impeachment.

'Honestly, we had a very warm conversation. You know, she loves this country. And she’s a very smart woman. She’s done a very good job,' he said. 'We didn’t talk about impeaching.'

Pelosi signaled again this weekend that she doesn't believe that Trump has committed the offenses necessary to remove him from office.

'If the evidence from Mueller is compelling, it should be compelling for Republicans as well, and that may be a moment of truth. But that’s not where we are,' she said.

Pelosi is on her way to becoming speaker of the House for a second time with the assistance of President Trump, who says he'll whip votes for her among Republicans

In the interview Pelosi also got candid about the media's coverage of Trump's presidency, including the insults he's lobbed at Stormy Daniels and his invitation to the White House for rapper Kanye West to talk about prison reform.

'May I say something you’re not going to like? I think the press loves him. All day on TV — and I don’t even watch TV, except sports. But he says somebody had a horse face — all day we hear about that. We hear about Kanye West, all day. You just give him all day! ' she said.

Pelosi assessed with a laugh, 'So I don’t want you to think I’m making an analogy, but Mussolini, he didn’t care what they said about him, as long as they were talking about him.'