Nancy Pelosi, former speaker of the United States House, suggested in an interview this Friday (8) that Joe Biden’s late withdrawal from the presidential campaign may have
“If the president had left earlier, there could have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi highlighted during an interview with a New York Times podcast.
Pelosi and Biden have been at odds since she helped orchestrate his withdrawal from the Democratic ticket in July.
Although she claimed that she did not actively encourage fellow Democrats to call on Biden to step aside, she made clear her opinion that the current president’s candidacy would not be a winning one.
However, his comments in the interview are his most explicit yet.
Pelosi stated that, since Biden withdrew, holding a primary vote in the Democratic Party could have helped the party’s eventual nominee for the Presidency.
Instead, the party rallied around her, avoiding any competition between fellow Democrats.
“The expectation was that, if the president stepped aside [da disputa]there would be an open primary. Kamala could have… I think she would have done well in this and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened,” commented Pelosi.
The former House speaker specifically cited Biden’s decision to support Kamala just hours after dropping out as a reason a primary could not take place.
“Because the president immediately supported Kamala Harris, it really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different”, he pondered.
