When asked about Democratic calls for President Biden to resign following his poor performance in the presidential debates, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she was not calling for Biden to resign.
“I don’t know who’s doing that,” Pelosi said of calls for Biden to step aside and for someone new to enter the race against former President Trump, according to MSNBC, in an audio clip played on Ali Velshi’s show on Saturday.
“I would not do that,” Pelosi said in the video.
Biden’s debate performance, marked by a raspy voice and flubbed words, has caused widespread anxiety within the party and cast doubt on his effectiveness as a front-runner for the nomination. Even staunch Democratic supporters, including some who previously worked with former President Barack Obama, expressed their own feelings about how Thursday night’s debate between Biden and former President Trump went.
“Obviously the debate was awful,” former Obama administration speechwriter and “Pod Save America” co-host Jon Favreau posted on social platform X on Friday morning. “We must defeat Donald Trump. We must field a candidate who can do that.”
David Axelrod, a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama and a Democratic strategist, said Democrats were shaken by the debate.
“I was actually struck by how he came out at the beginning of this debate, the tone of his voice. He seemed a little confused. He certainly got stronger as the debate went on,” Axelrod said. “I don’t know if it’s going to lead to anything, but I think you’re going to hear some debate about whether he should continue.”
After the debate, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) said: fellow Following reports of growing unrest among Democrats, party members were warned to “stay calm”.
“I refuse to join the Democratic vultures who have been riding Biden’s shoulders since the debate. No one knows better than me that a tough debate is not the sum of a person and their record,” Fetterman said in a post on X.
