By In an interview with The Washington Post, First Lady Jill Biden openly criticized former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s involvement in President Joe Biden’s decision not to seek reelection in 2024.
Her comments shed light on lingering tensions following a challenging year for the Democratic Party. In the summer, during the height of the campaign, the former Speaker of the House threatened to force President Joe Biden out of the race unless he did it voluntarily.
“Now I was really asking for a better campaign. We did not have a campaign that was on the path to victory. Members knew that in their districts,” the former House speaker told a small group of reporters while promoting her new book.
Reflecting on the episode, Jill Biden expressed a sense of personal betrayal. “Let’s just say I was disappointed with how it unfolded,” she remarked. “I learned a lot about human nature.” When pressed about Pelosi’s role, she said, “I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships. It’s been on my mind a lot lately, and… we were friends for 50 years. It was disappointing.”
After the president’s unsteady debate performance and increasing doubts among Democratic lawmakers about his ability to defeat former President Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi privately expressed her concerns to President Biden. According to a report by POLITICO in July, Pelosi urged Biden to consider stepping down, suggesting his leadership was negatively impacting the party.
In concert with a George Clooney op-ed, eggeed on by Barack Obama, Pelosi wielded the knife against Biden during a widely discussed interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” last July, Pelosi openly questioned whether Biden would remain in the race, even though the president had already announced his intention to seek reelection.
“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” Pelosi told MSNBC. “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision, because time is running short.”
Responding to the uproar she caused and Kamala Harris’ disastrous campaign that Donald Trump crushed, Pelosi has defended her actions, placing blame for the Democratic defeat squarely on the shoulders of the Bidens.
Speaking to The New York Times, she argued that Biden’s delayed decision constrained the party’s options. “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” she explained. “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary… Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that.”
Pelosi went on: “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.”
Biden’s endorsement of the vice president, rumored to have been an attempt to block Pelosi and Obama from picking a new nominee, effectively closed the door on any potential challengers. Within two weeks, Vice President Harris quickly secured backing from delegates to the Democratic National Convention, solidifying her position.
The Harris campaign has become a catastrophe for Democrats, who now find themselves in debt despite Harris receiving a billion dollars in funding.
The party has become so desperate to recoup cash that Harris has begun fundraising off of the fact that a man using a cane did not shake her hand as his wife was sworn in to the Senate.
New low. In an email titled “Handshake,” Kamala Harris is fundraising off of Sen. Deb Fischer’s husband not shaking Kamala’s hand at her swearing-in ceremony. He didn’t shake it because he was holding himself up with a cane pic.twitter.com/Sqa0AFjTzJ
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) January 15, 2025
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