'Almost impossible': Nancy Pelosi hurls blame in first major interview since Trump win
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is pointing fingers at President Joe Biden as Democrats look for someone to blame for Donald Trump winning the 2024 election.
Speaking to the New York Times Friday, Pelosi complained: “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.”
And she said Biden's eventual agreement to halt his run for re-election — a decision she is considered central to — did not go as planned.
“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary," she said.
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“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward." Harris declared her first campaign for president in 2019, but dropped out before any of the states voted in primaries.
"That didn’t happen," Pelosi continued. "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.”
Critics responded to the comments with a video of Pelosi from ABC News in which she supported Biden as the nominee in Nov. 2022.
The full interview with Pelosi will air on Saturday for the New York Times podcast with Lulu Garcia-Navarro.