Pelosi Blames Biden for Losing White House for Democrats
Nov 10, 2024 19:36:35 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Nov 10, 2024 19:36:35 GMT -5
Pelosi Blames Biden for Losing White House for Democrats: He Should Have ‘Gotten Out Sooner’
Nick R. Hamilton
November 10, 2024 - 10:04 am
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is blaming lame-duck President Joe Biden for Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s crushing election defeat.
Pelosi argues that Biden stayed in the race too long, Fox News reported.
The California Democrat believes Election Day would have gone differently if there had been a choice during the primary.
Biden was clearly suffering from dementia during the campaign, but the Democratic Party kept propping him up until they couldn’t any longer.
Then, Biden’s lousy debate performance against President Donald Trump exposed the Democrats’ “Weekend at Bernie’s” scheme and forced their hand.
The president was forced by top Democrats, including Pelosi, to step down from his re-election campaign on July 21, leaving no time to pick a replacement.
He immediately endorsed Vice President Harris, which Pelosi thinks was a mistake.
Pelosi said as much to Lulu Garcia-Navarro for the New York Times podcast, “The Interview.”
During the conversation, she admitted Biden wrecked his party’s chances at keeping the White House.
Pelosi blamed Biden for leaving Democrats with Harris as their nominee.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi told Garcia-Navarro.
“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary,” she claimed.
“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in and been stronger going forward.
“But we don’t know that.
“That didn’t happen.
“We live with what happened,” Pelosi explained of Harris’ recent loss to Trump.
“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,” she added.
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Pelosi Blames Biden for Losing White House for Democrats: He Should Have 'Gotten Out Sooner'
It was obvious that Harris was a terrible candidate because she had been a supremely unpopular vice president, but Democrats were only able to admit that after the election.
In August, Pelosi claimed that after Harris took over as the nominee, it happened that way because nobody else wanted the position.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal at the time, Pelosi claimed:
“Many of us who were concerned about the election wanted to have an open process.
“It was an open process, anyone could have gotten in. [Harris] had the endorsement of the president, and she, politically astutely, took advantage of it and shut down — not shut down, but won the nomination,” Pelosi went on.
“But anybody else could have gotten in,” Pelosi added.
Once they were stuck with Harris, Democrats tried to remake the vice president into a viable candidate.
They rebranded her as “brat,” leaning heavily into the youth demographic with a marketing campaign to make her seem fresh and full of “joy.”
Unfortunately, Harris was still the same awkward, unlikeable, vapid candidate underneath, and voters could see that.
Pelosi is correct that the Democratic Party made a grave mistake in installing Harris as the replacement for Biden.
They lost their chance at the White House because they ran roughshod over their voters.
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Nick R. Hamilton
November 10, 2024 - 10:04 am
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is blaming lame-duck President Joe Biden for Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s crushing election defeat.
Pelosi argues that Biden stayed in the race too long, Fox News reported.
The California Democrat believes Election Day would have gone differently if there had been a choice during the primary.
Biden was clearly suffering from dementia during the campaign, but the Democratic Party kept propping him up until they couldn’t any longer.
Then, Biden’s lousy debate performance against President Donald Trump exposed the Democrats’ “Weekend at Bernie’s” scheme and forced their hand.
The president was forced by top Democrats, including Pelosi, to step down from his re-election campaign on July 21, leaving no time to pick a replacement.
He immediately endorsed Vice President Harris, which Pelosi thinks was a mistake.
Pelosi said as much to Lulu Garcia-Navarro for the New York Times podcast, “The Interview.”
During the conversation, she admitted Biden wrecked his party’s chances at keeping the White House.
Pelosi blamed Biden for leaving Democrats with Harris as their nominee.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi told Garcia-Navarro.
“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary,” she claimed.
“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in and been stronger going forward.
“But we don’t know that.
“That didn’t happen.
“We live with what happened,” Pelosi explained of Harris’ recent loss to Trump.
“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,” she added.
WATCH:
Pelosi Blames Biden for Losing White House for Democrats: He Should Have 'Gotten Out Sooner'
It was obvious that Harris was a terrible candidate because she had been a supremely unpopular vice president, but Democrats were only able to admit that after the election.
In August, Pelosi claimed that after Harris took over as the nominee, it happened that way because nobody else wanted the position.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal at the time, Pelosi claimed:
“Many of us who were concerned about the election wanted to have an open process.
“It was an open process, anyone could have gotten in. [Harris] had the endorsement of the president, and she, politically astutely, took advantage of it and shut down — not shut down, but won the nomination,” Pelosi went on.
“But anybody else could have gotten in,” Pelosi added.
Once they were stuck with Harris, Democrats tried to remake the vice president into a viable candidate.
They rebranded her as “brat,” leaning heavily into the youth demographic with a marketing campaign to make her seem fresh and full of “joy.”
Unfortunately, Harris was still the same awkward, unlikeable, vapid candidate underneath, and voters could see that.
Pelosi is correct that the Democratic Party made a grave mistake in installing Harris as the replacement for Biden.
They lost their chance at the White House because they ran roughshod over their voters.
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