Nancy Pelosi tells The View she still hasn’t spoken to Biden since she helped him out of the race
Nancy Pelosi said in an interview with ABC’s The View on Monday that she has not spoken to Joe Biden since he was forced to withdraw from the presidential race. She argued that a Democrat should be in power on Jan. 6, when the 2024 election is officially certified.
This means that the duo has not spoken to each other. almost a month and a half.
Biden dropped out of the presidential race on July 21 amid a Democratic pressure campaign orchestrated by the former Speaker of the House. Like many in the party, Biden was concerned about losing the White House to Donald Trump and taking the Democrats in the House and Senate with him.
Pelosi was prepared to make her concerns public, DailyMail.com reported last month, if Biden did not voluntarily resign.
The former chair told ‘The View’ it wasn’t about ousting Biden, but that she wanted him to run a better presidential campaign.
“My point was that we need a better campaign,” she said. “So it wasn’t about him not participating. It’s just that if this is the case, we need to participate in a different way.”
Nancy Pelosi Stunningly Changed Her Story About How Joe Biden Left the Race
Pelosi then lavishly praised the president.
“The president made his decision, patriotic, selfless, the most consistent president of modern times. This has been a great president of the United States,” she said.
Biden, 81, and Pelosi, 84, had a close friendship dating back to their nearly 50 years together on Capitol Hill, and they spoke often.
Pelosi’s ultimatum is said to have enraged the Bidens and all but destroyed the friendship between their families.
It wasn’t just Pelosi who pressured Biden after his disastrous performance during the June 26 debate with Trump.
Other party leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, told Biden they no longer considered his candidacy viable.
When asked by DailyMail last month whether he was still angry with Pelosi or whether he had spoken to her recently, Biden simply replied: “No, I haven’t spoken to her.” He added that he was the one who made the decision to step down.
Biden’s departure resulted in Kamala Harris becoming the party’s Democratic nominee, who is currently trailing Trump in the polls.
Pelosi, who holds the title of Speaker Emeritus and still wields considerable power in the House, also had a warning ahead of the Nov. 5 election: Give Democrats control of the House or another Jan. 6 awaits.
Control of Congress is also on the agenda in November.
And the new lawmakers will be sworn in on January 3. That means they will take office on January 6, the day Congress officially certifies the 2024 presidential election.
“The fact is, Hakeem Jeffries should be the Speaker of the House,” she told The View hosts about the current Democratic leader in the House.
“He needs to have that gavel. He needs to have that gavel on January 6th. I had the gavel on January 6th. It made a difference in what happened that night. He needs to have that gavel, and I would say that in this particular year,” she added.
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President Joe Biden, sick with COVID, a week before he withdrew from the race
Then-Speaker Pelosi, along with then-Vice President Mike Pence, certified the results of the 2020 election on January 6, 2021, when Biden defeated Trump. Trump falsely claimed he was the real winner.
His supporters stormed Capitol Hill that day and entered the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election results.
After several hours, the US Capitol Police were able to regain control of the building. Pelosi, Pence and other lawmakers returned to the House of Representatives and certified Biden’s victory.
Trump has already indicated that the 2024 election will be stolen from him and that he will lock up people who “engage in unconscionable conduct” surrounding voting.
“IF I WIN, the people who cheated will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. That will include long prison sentences so that this perversion of justice cannot happen again,” he wrote on his Truth Social account on Saturday.
“We cannot allow our country to slide further into a third world country, AND WE WILL NOT!”
After the November 2020 election, Trump and his allies attempted to overturn the election results through phone calls, tweets and lawsuits in key swing states.
Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on January 6, 2021
Donald Trump indicated in a post on Truth Social this weekend that he believes the 2024 election will be stolen from him
Trump faces federal and state charges in Georgia related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. He denies any wrongdoing.
As the sitting vice president, Harris will be on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2025, to oversee the certification of the election results along with the Speaker of the House of Representatives.