Jill Biden is ‘disappointed’ in her 50-year-old friend, Nancy Pelosi, after betraying her husband Joe following his Georgian debate disaster in June.
Pelosi is widely seen as a key player in Biden’s decision in July to drop out of the race just months before Election Day..
After Kamala Harris’ loss to Donald Trump, she doubled down, saying the president should have dropped out of the race earlier to allow for a more open primary to take his place.
“I asked for a campaign that would win. And I didn’t see that on the horizon,” she said in July, despite denying she had pushed Biden out.
First Lady Jill appears not to have recovered from what Pelosi did to her husband in an exit interview released Wednesday.
“Let’s just say I was disappointed with the way it unfolded,” Biden said, adding “I learned a lot about human nature.”
Biden was asked about Pelosi after saying she had “thought a lot about relationships.”
“I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, and…wWe had been friends for 50 years. It was disappointing,” she said of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Jill Biden is ‘disappointed’ in her 50-year-old friend, Nancy Pelosi, after betraying her husband Joe following his disaster in the Georgia debate in June
First Lady Jill appears not to have recovered from what Pelosi did to her husband in an exit interview released Wednesday
Mary Doody, a longtime friend of Jill and the Biden family, told the Washington Post a little more about the family’s thoughts on Pelosi.
‘It was terrible. It was mean. It was disrespectful. [Jill] talked about that a lot. I know I’m biased, but Joe Biden didn’t deserve that.”
The former speaker has spent much of her interviews praising Biden for quitting the race. She even told CBS that he belonged on Mount Rushmore.
There have been reports for some time that Biden is angry with her for her role in his impeachment.
Pelosi worked behind the scenes to calm panicked Democrats after Biden’s first debate appearance, where he stared into space and struggled to answer questions.
Democrats feared that with Biden at the top of the ticket, they would lose the House, the Senate and the White House.
Pelosi would relay these messages to the White House.
Publicly, she always said she trusted Biden to make the right decision, a message she repeated in Monday’s interview.
Pelosi is widely seen as a key player in Biden’s decision in July to drop out of the race just months before Election Day.
Pelosi worked behind the scenes to calm panicked Democrats after Biden’s first debate appearance, where he stared into space and struggled to answer questions
“I have the utmost respect for the president,” she told GMA. “I think he will be one of the most consequential presidents of our country. I want him and his legacy to be recognized and preserved.”
‘I didn’t ask him to resign. I asked for a campaign that would win. And I didn’t see that on the horizon,” she said.
She also explained what it takes to have a winning campaign: “Winning an election is a decision. You make a decision to win and make every decision in favor of winning, in terms of how you mobilize at the grassroots level and own the ground to win the vote. How to have a message that is bold and progressive, but not threatening to the audience. And how you have the money for that, to get it largely from small donors. And then the most important decision is the candidate.’
After the election, however, she twisted the knife again, saying that if Biden had dropped out sooner, the party she led for decades would have had time to weigh its options.
Pelosi’s admission that she did not want Harris to automatically become the nominee after Biden’s exit in mid-July appeared to be damage control by the longtime Democratic kingmaker after the embarrassing loss.
The veteran lawmaker admitted she wanted the cancellation of the president’s campaign, which she helped orchestrate, to go in a different direction.
“If the president had come out sooner, there might have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said.
“The expectation was that if the president stepped aside, there would be an open primary.”
Biden was asked about Pelosi after saying she had “thought a lot about relationships.” “I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, and… we were friends for fifty years. It was disappointing,” she said of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives
“Let’s just say I was disappointed with the way it unfolded,” Biden said, adding that “I learned a lot about human nature.”
Those primaries would have allowed many different Democratic candidates to throw their hat in the ring and make their case before the delegates.
There seemed to be a slew of candidates on the horizon, some included Michelle Obama, others said Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Reports indicate that Pelosi’s plan was to march the party forward with the primaries, and Biden’s quick and unexpected endorsement derailed Pelosi’s plan.
“And because the president immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, that made it virtually impossible to hold a primary at that point,” Pelosi shockingly admitted.
“If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
“That didn’t happen,” the lawmaker said. “We live with what happened.”
Pelosi said Harris may have won the open primary, although that would not have been a certainty.
“And like I said, maybe Kamala, I think she would have done well in that and would have been stronger in the future,” Pelosi continued. “But we don’t know that.”