Former President Barack Obama praised the management of Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi although headlining the final night time of a significant fundraising energy for Property Democrats.

Speaking to donors Sunday night at the remaining installment of the “Hold the House” digital function collection, the former commander-in-chief touted Pelosi (D-Calif.) as “one very good cause to continue to keep the Home.”

“One great reason to hold the Household is to maintain Nancy Pelosi speaker, and that would be adequate,” Obama explained to function attendees, in accordance to Politico.

Tickets to go to one particular of the four occasions that took spot commenced at $1,000 and went way up to $100,000 to co-chair the collection.

Obama went on to describe the Democratic-led Residence of Representatives as the only governmental entire body preventing back again towards what he referred to as “lawlessness.”

“If you glimpse at the very last two years or calendar year and a half…the Property has been the bulwark against a lawlessness that we have seen and a disregard for fundamental democratic norms that has occur not just from the White Household, but has been enabled by the Republicans in the Senate and, if they experienced their druthers, the Republicans in the Residence,” the former president mentioned of the GOP.

The sequence, which Politico reports raised $14 million for the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee, was executive manufactured by musician John Legend.

Obama’s overall look follows a fundraiser he held for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden late past month exactly where he pulled no punches about his successor’s administration — and lifted $11 million in the course of action.

“What we have noticed over the final few of several years is a White Household enabled by Republicans in Congress and a media construction that supports them — that has not just differed in conditions of plan, but has absent at the very foundations of who we are and who we ought to be.

“That suggests info never issue, science doesn’t issue. That implies that a fatal disease is phony information. That sees the Justice Office as simply an extension and arm of the own worries of the president. That actively encourages division, and considers some individuals in this state far more authentic as Us citizens than other folks,” Obama stated while sharing a break up display with his previous vice president.