Nancy Pelosi has admitted she has not spoken to Joe Biden since she forced him to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election.
Pelosi was a key leader in getting Biden to drop out of the race in July after his widespread failure to challenge Trump in a debate and amid fears that he could not help the country given his age and state of mind could lead.
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives told the Guardian that although she considered the US president a friend and political ally, she knew she had to help him.
‘Elections are decisions. You decide to win. I decided some time ago that Donald Trump will never again set foot in the White House as President of the United States or in any other capacity.
“So when you make a decision, you have to make every decision in favor of winning… and the most important decision of all is the candidate.”
Nancy Pelosi (pictured) has admitted she has not spoken to Joe Biden since she forced him to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election
Pelosi was a key leader in the unseating of Joe Biden (pictured) in July
She added: “I have the utmost respect for him. I think he is one of the great consistent presidents of our country.
“I think his legacy needed to be protected. I didn’t see that happening during the time the election was going on. My appeal was simply: “Let’s chart a better course.”
He will decide what that is. And he made that decision. But I think he’s a little uncomfortable because we’ve been friends for decades.”
She said she would like to get Kamala Harris into the Oval Office in November.
‘She runs on her strength, her knowledge of policy and strategy and presentation and the rest. And I think this is a different race than Hillary Clinton.”
Pelosi added, “I always thought America was more ready for a female president than a female Speaker of the House of Representatives. The United States Congress is not a glass ceiling there. It’s a marble ceiling. And it was very difficult to rise there.
‘But I think the public is in a better mood. In Congress they said to me, “Understand this, there has been a pecking order here for a long time of guys who have been waiting for openings and it’s their turn.” And I said, “That’s interesting. We have been waiting for more than 200 years.”
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at the Erie Insurance Arena in Erie, Pennsylvania, on October 14, 2024
Republican presidential candidate, former President Donald Trump, holds a town hall at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania on October 14, 2024
The candidates are ramping up their campaigns as November approaches.
One of Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ top campaign advisers called the publicly available polls “horses***” just as her race with Donald Trump tightens.
David Plouffe, a senior adviser to the Harris-Walz campaign and a former adviser to Barack Obama, was adamant while speaking on the “God Save America” podcast that the presidential race is closer than some surveys indicate.
“I can’t speak to the public opinion polls. I spend very little time looking at them… most of them are horses***,” the quarterback admitted.
“Some of them may be close, but overall I would say any poll that shows Kamala Harris four to five points ahead in any of these seven states is ignoring them,” he said, referring to the critical battleground states.
“Any point that Donald Trump makes like that, ignore it.”