The daughter of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at outgoing first lady Jill Biden over the weekend, apparently comparing her to Shakespeare's power-hungry and ruthless Lady Macbeth.
The Democratic first lady recently slammed Pelosi over last summer's Democratic revolt against President Biden, but Alexandra Pelosi, the daughter of the left-handed California congressman, said her mother was actually one of Joe Biden's few remaining He replied that he was one of his friends.
“If I were Mrs. McBiden, I would put on my big girl pants, fight the long game, and think about my husband's legacy,” Alexandra said shortly. saturday politico.
“There aren't that many people left in America who have good things to say about Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi is one of them,” the younger Pelosi said.
In an interview published last week, Jill, 73, publicly questioned her decades-long friendship with Nancy Pelosi, 84, in light of the Democratic revolt against her husband, and gave the former House speaker her fingerprints. was left behind.
“We've been friends for 50 years,” Jill lamented. In an interview with the Washington Post.
“Let's just say I'm disappointed in the development,” she added of Pelosi's rumored involvement in her husband's ouster as the party's 2024 presidential nominee. “I don't know. I learned a lot about human nature.”
President Biden had been urged to abandon his bid for re-election, especially after his fumble performance against President-elect Donald Trump in the June debate.
Nancy Pelosi has stubbornly maintained that she “didn't call anyone” during the insurrection, but there is a possibility that nervous Democrats called her and efforts to oust Joe Biden. The possibility remained open that she was far behind.
Supporters of the former House speaker say he did not use coercive methods to force the president to resign.
“There was no threat,” a person familiar with the situation told Politico. “She just told him the truth. He was losing in every poll and people were losing confidence.”
But Pelosi also appeared on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” rumored to be the president's favorite political show, and just days after writing a letter to members of Congress urging her to resign, He indicated that he had not decided to resign. Remains in the 2024 race.
Meanwhile, the former speaker mixed lavish praise for the outgoing 82-year-old president with harsh words about his campaign.
At one point, she publicly suggested that he deserved to be on Mount Rushmore.
But after Vice President Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic Party, and famously lost to Trump, Nancy Pelosi told the New York Times If the president had withdrawn from the race sooner, Democrats might have had a better chance of winning.
“Kamala might be. She would have done well there and come out even stronger going forward,” Nancy Pelosi said. “The president's immediate endorsement of Kamala Harris made it nearly impossible to hold a primary at that time.”
President Biden awarded Nancy the Medal of Freedom in May, weeks before Democrats objected, but months passed without speaking to Pelosi after the insurrection.
“Many of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought I would hurt them in the race. And they were worried that if I stayed in the race, it would be talked about — You will be interviewed by me about why Nancy Pelosi said [something]'' he told “CBS News Sunday Morning'' over the summer.
Alexandra, a 54-year-old filmmaker and one of Nancy's five children, has long been very outspoken on her mother's behalf.
Two years ago, she made a documentary about the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, focusing on her mother's reaction to it.
