Nancy Pelosi has admitted she hasn’t spoken to Joe Biden since she forced him to drop out of the 2024 presidential election.
Pelosi was a key figure in getting Biden to step aside from the race in July after a dismal performance in a presidential debate against Donald Trump.
The former Speaker of the House confirmed they had not spoken since then. She said: ‘Not since then, no. But I’m prayerful about it.’
Pelosi said that while she considered the president a friend and political ally, she knew that she had to do something to cut his time in the Oval Office short.
‘Elections are decisions. You decide to win. I decided a while ago that Donald Trump will never set foot in the White House again as president of the United States or in any other capacity,’ she told the Guardian.
‘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 hasn’t spoken to Joe Biden since she forced him to drop out of the 2024 presidential election
Pelosi was a key leader in getting Joe Biden (pictured) to drop out of the race in July
She added: ‘I have the greatest respect for him. I think he’s one of the great consequential presidents of our country.
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‘I think his legacy had to be protected. I didn’t see that happening in the course that it was on, the election was on. My call was just to: ‘Let’s get on a better course.’
He will make the decision as to what that is. And he made that decision. But I think he has some unease because we’ve been friends for decades.’
She said that she was keen to get Kamala Harris into the Oval Office in November.
‘She’s running on her strength, her knowledge of policy and strategy and presentation and the rest. And I think that’s a different race than Hillary Clinton ran.’
Pelosi added: ‘I always thought America was more ready for a woman president than a woman speaker of the House. The Congress of the United States is not a glass ceiling there. It’s a marble ceiling. And it was very hard to rise up there.
‘But the public, I think, is better disposed. In Congress, they would say to me: ‘Understand this, there’s been a pecking order here for a long time of men who’ve been waiting for openings to happen and take their turn.’ And I said: ‘That’s interesting. We’ve been waiting over 200 years.”
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One of Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s top campaign advisors called publicly available polling ‘horses***’ just as her race with Donald Trump tightens.
David Plouffe, a senior advisor to the Harris-Walz campaign and a former Barack Obama advisor, was adamant while speaking on the ‘Pod Save America’ podcast that the presidential race is closer than some surveys show.
‘I can’t speak to the public polls. I spend very little time looking at them… most of them are horses***,’ the strategist admitted.
‘Some of them may be close but generally, I’d say any poll that shows Kamala Harris up four to five points in one of these seven states, ignore it,’ he said referencing the critical battleground states.
‘Any point that shows Donald Trump up like that – ignore it.’