Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that if Democrats had held a full-fledged primary after President Joe Biden abandoned his re-election bid and immediately endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. , said the election season “would have been different” and retracted previous statements such as: They actually held an “open primary election.”
Former US Speaker of the House of Representatives said He said in mid-October that he had not spoken to Biden since he urged him to withdraw from the race in July. in new york timesNovember 9th episode of interview Podcast: “If the president had withdrawn sooner, there might have been other candidates in the race.''
“There was an expectation that if the president left office, there would be a primary,” Pelosi told host Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
Mr. Biden supported Mr. Harris to replace him as president. time After announcing his withdrawal from the race on July 21st, I admit it Poor performance in debates against current President-elect Donald Trump.
Less than 36 hours after securing the president's endorsement, Harris announced she was blocking the Democratic Party's nomination, Fox News reported. reported.
“And like I said, Kamala could have done that and I think she would have done just fine.” [a primary] And we will continue to grow even stronger. But we don't know that. That didn't happen. We live with what happened,” Pelosi continued. “And the president's immediate endorsement of Kamala Harris made it nearly impossible to hold a primary at the time. Had it been earlier, things would have been different.”
Pelosi flipped out on the issue. tell of wall street journal “It was an open process and anyone could participate,” he said in August.
“[Harris] She had the president's support and was politically shrewd enough to use it to shut it down — not shut it down, but win the nomination. But anyone else could have gotten in,” the California congressman added.
She echoed that sentiment in September, telling Semaphore's Kadia Goba that it was a “blessing” that Harris “went through with it.”
“No, I didn’t change my mind. We had an open primary. [Harris] I won. No one else was in the race,” Pelosi said. “Yes, people could have jumped in. There were some people who were getting ready, but she just left. It was actually a blessing, because there wasn't that much time until the election at the time. In a way, it saved me” time. “
