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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi distanced herself from the Kamala Harris catastrophe by claiming that Democrats should have selected their nominee through a primary process.
The octogenarian lawmaker put the blame for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s landslide win squarely on President Joe Biden for not dropping out of the race sooner and for endorsing Harris who was handed the nomination despite not winning a single vote.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” she told Lulu Garcia-Navarro of The New York Times in a post-election interview.
“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary,” added Pelosi who, along with Barack Obama, orchestrated the coup that forced the 81-year-old incumbent out, with it having been reported that he was threatened with the use of the 25th Amendment if he didn’t step aside.
“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in [a primary] and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened,” Pelosi said. “And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
However, Pelosi’s remarks during the latest edition of “The Interview” podcast are inconsistent with her previous defense of crowning Kamala in the most undemocratic way imaginable.
Meanwhile here was Pelosi in September, saying: “We had an open primary and [Harris] won it.”https://t.co/x0DD6OAidz pic.twitter.com/fgILKNOG3Y
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) November 8, 2024
“Many of us who were concerned about the election wanted to have an open process. It was an open process, anyone could have gotten in,” she also told The Wall Street Journal during an interview in August, adding that Harris “had the endorsement of the president, and she, politically astutely, took advantage of it and shut down — not shut down, but won the nomination. But anybody else could have gotten in.”
More than anybody else, Pelosi’s fingerprints are all over the dagger that was buried in Biden’s back by his own party after his disastrous showing at CNN’s late June debate with Trump when a national television audience got to see what critics had been insisting for years, that the president is senile.
The scheming Pelosi, who has proudly described herself as “reptilian” and “cold-blooded” as if they are admirable traits, furiously worked behind the scenes to force Biden out as polls showed that he would be badly beaten by Trump.
“Just a little background, I’ve never been that impressed with his political operation,” Pelosi said in another August interview, giving the knife she shoved into Biden’s back a good hard twist. “They won the White House. Bravo. But my concern was this ain’t happening, and we have to make a decision for this to happen. The President has to make the decision for that to happen.”
Despite Pelosi’s insisting that it’s all Joe’s fault, she knows it was her, and a picture from Harris’s concession speech is worth a thousand words.
Frame it. pic.twitter.com/QstjrbxDdH
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 7, 2024
After her fellow Californian was handed the nomination on a silver platter, Pelosi was a constant presence in the media but became practically invisible after Harris’ campaign went into a death spiral in October. Now she’s back to do damage control and gaslight the public into believing that she is guiltless over handing the White House back over to Trump with a voter mandate and a GOP-majority Senate.
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