Pelosi admitted to being a key mover in getting Biden to withdraw from the presidential race
Nancy Pelosi has taken credit for getting Biden to withdraw from the presidential race.
In an interview with the New Yorker for its Radio Hour show, Pelosi told host David Remnick that she had “never been that impressed” with Biden’s “political operation” and that she was a key mover in getting Biden to withdraw in favour of Kamala Harris.
“I love him [Biden] so much. I think he’s been really a fantastic President of the United States,” Pelosi said.
“So I really wanted him to make a decision of a better campaign, because they were not facing the fact of what was happening. Just a little background. I’ve never been that impressed with his political operation… I’m not. I just haven’t been. I mean, it just happened. They won the White House. Bravo.
“So my concern was, this ain’t happening, and we have to make a decision for this to happen, and the President has to make the decision for that to happen.”
“Let me just say, I won’t say necessarily I knew what I was doing at that time. I knew what I was doing in the whole thing, not just that show.”
When Pelosi was asked what she meant by “that show,” she replied, “That Donald Trump would never set foot in the White House again.”
On a new episode of #NewYorkerRadio, Nancy Pelosi speaks to David Remnick about her influence on Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the Presidential race, admitting that she had “never been that impressed with his political operation.” Listen here: https://t.co/XUld3rAgig pic.twitter.com/VW3zv2WSps
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 8, 2024
Pelosi’s confession tallies with what we know thanks to journalist Seymour Hersch. According to Hersch, Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries plotted with Barack Obama and Kamala Harris to use the threat of the 25th Amendment to get Biden to step away from the race.
“By Saturday, July 20, former President Barack Obama was deeply involved, and there was talk that he would place a call to Biden,” Hersch explained on Substack. He describes how a well-placed official told him that Pelosi, Schumer and Jeffries conspired with Obama to invoke the 25th Amendment, leading to a phone call with Biden in which the former president said, “Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
