House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that radical Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal were vying to be the “queen bee” of the left in Congress, and it almost cost the party their majority in 2020.

The revelation appears in the new book This Will Not Pass by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.

Pelosi is worried that her party’s radical cultural policies will doom Democrats going forward.

Members like AOC and Jayapal see Pelosi as an ancient fossil who is only still there because Democrats don’t trust the new radicals with the speaker’s gavel. But eventually, they will ascend to power because the rest of the party fears their popularity with the base.

The book will be in bookstores on May 3.