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From Fox News: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pointed the finger at President Biden for not dropping out of the race earlier in an election post-mortem with The New York Times on Thursday.
Pelosi told host Lulu Garcia-Navarro on the Times’ “The Interview” podcast, “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.”
As the former speaker told it, “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.” Pelosi had been a key player in pushing Biden out after his infamous debate performance.
Instead, within an hour of announcing he was stepping aside on July 21, Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. Less than 36 hours later, she announced she had locked up the nomination, getting commitments of backing from a majority of Democratic National Committee delegates.
Pelosi continued, “And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened.
“And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
Listen below:
Pelosi blames Biden for election loss: “Had the President gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race. The anticipation was if the president were to step aside, there would be an open primary…” pic.twitter.com/QAkyJ39Wdg
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) November 9, 2024
Representative Nancy Pelosi suggested in an interview with The New York Times that it would have been better for the Democratic Party if President Biden had abandoned his re-election campaign sooner and the party held a primary process to replace him. https://t.co/INyEgtwQFZ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 8, 2024
This is House of Cards stuff…
Pelosi’s plan was for a blitz primary, but Biden endorsed Kamala in his drop out letter as a big “fuck you” to the Democrats for forcing him out.
That’s why Obama, Schumer, etc were all so late to endorse her. They didn’t want her. https://t.co/3PKDgEFtBv
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) November 8, 2024
In September, Pelosi had claimed, “We had an open primary and [Kamala Harris] won it.”
Pelosi in September: “We had an open primary and [Kamala Harris] won it.” https://t.co/0TbWmN3SIs pic.twitter.com/odbyyPeOl7
— Raj Aryal (@rajaryal07) November 8, 2024
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