Nancy Pelosi in New York, October 24, 2024. GREGORY PACE/SHUTTERSTOCK/SIPA / GREGORY PACE//SIPA
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It’s time to settle scores. After the failure of <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/donald-trump-whats-behind-the-us-presidents-baltimore-attack/" title="Donald Trump: What's behind the US President's Baltimore attack”>Kamala Harris against Donald Trump in the presidential election, Nancy Pelosi pointed out the responsibility of Joe Biden, who withdrew from the race for the White House in favor of his vice-president with only four month of the election.
In an interview given to a podcast you New York Times and broadcast this Saturday, November 9, the democratic tenor estimated that “if the president had withdrawn earlier, there might have been other candidates in the race.” “It was expected that if the president stepped down, there would be an open primary”declared Nancy Pelosi.
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According to the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Kamala Harris could have “doing well” in a primary and out “stronger”. “That did not happen (…) And because the president immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, it was virtually impossible to hold primaries at that time. If this had been done much earlier, things would have been different”she regretted.
Defense of the Democratic record
But despite her criticism, Nancy Pelosi defended in this interview Joe Biden’s record in the White House, when she herself was at the head of the House, at least during the first two years.
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While Bernie Sanders claimed that Democrats lost because of a lack of proposals addressing the economic concerns of working-class voters, Nancy Pelosi flatly denied the accusation. “Bernie Sanders did not win”, she defended herself. For the 84-year-old elected official, it is rather cultural issues that have kept working-class voters away from the Democratic Party, for example on “guns, God and homosexuals”she was indignant.
