Nancy Pelosi revealed in an interview with ABC’s “The View” on Monday that she has not spoken to Joe Biden since he was pushed out of the presidential race, arguing that a Democrat must be in charge on Jan. 6, when the 2024 election is certified.
That is, the duo did not speak in almost a month and a half.
Biden dropped out of the presidential race on July 21 due to a pressure campaign by the Democrats. The former speaker orchestrated the campaign and, like many other party members, feared that Biden could lose the White House to Donald Trump and drag the Democrats in the House and Senate down with him.
As DailyMail.com revealed last month, Pelosi was prepared to make her concerns public if Biden did not resign voluntarily.
The former spokeswoman told “The View” that she was not trying to oust Biden; she just wanted him to run a better presidential campaign.
“My point was that we need a better campaign,” she said. “So it wasn’t about him not running. It was just that we need to run differently in this case.”
In a stunning twist, Nancy Pelosi changed her story about Joe Biden’s exit from the race
Pelosi then praised the president effusively.
“The president made his decision patriotically and selflessly. He is the greatest president of modern times. He was a great president of the United States,” she said.
Biden, 81, and Pelosi, 84, shared a close friendship dating back to their nearly 50 years together on Capitol Hill; they spoke often.
Pelosi’s ultimatum is said to have made the Bidens angry – and almost destroyed the friendship between their families.
Pelosi was not the only one to put pressure on Biden after his disastrous performance at the debate with Trump on June 26.
Other party leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, told Biden they no longer considered his candidacy to be a viable option.
When asked by DailyMail last month if he was still angry with Pelosi or if he had spoken to her recently, Biden simply replied: “No, I have not spoken to her.” He added that he was the one who made the decision to quit.
After Biden’s departure, Kamala Harris became the party’s Democratic candidate. She is currently neck and neck with Trump in the polls.
Pelosi, who holds the title of speaker emeritus and still wields enormous influence in the House, also had a warning ahead of the November 5 election: Give the Democrats control of the House or prepare for another January 6.
Control of Congress will also be voted on in November.
And the new representatives will be sworn in on January 3. This means they will take office on January 6, the day Congress officially certifies the 2024 presidential election.
“But the fact is that Hakeem Jeffries has to be the Speaker of the House,” she told The View hosts about the current House Democratic leader.
“He must have had that hammer. He must have had that hammer on January 6th. I had the hammer on January 6th. That made a difference in what happened that night. He must have had that hammer, and that’s what I would say in this particular year,” she added.
President Joe Biden, diagnosed with COVID a week before dropping out of the race
Then-Speaker Pelosi, along with then-Vice President Mike Pence, certified the results of the 2020 election, in which Biden defeated Trump, on January 6, 2021. Trump falsely claimed he was the real winner.
His supporters stormed the Capitol that day and broke into the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election results.
After several hours, the US Capitol Police managed to regain control of the building. Pelosi, Pence and the other lawmakers returned to the House chamber and confirmed Biden’s victory.
Trump has already suggested that the 2024 election would be stolen from him and has announced that he will jail anyone involved in “unconscionable conduct” related to voting.
“IF I WIN, the people who CHEATED will be punished to the fullest extent of the law, including lengthy prison sentences, to ensure this perversion of justice is not repeated,” he wrote on his Truth Social account on Saturday.
“We cannot allow our country to degenerate further into a third world country, AND WE WILL NOT!”
After the November 2020 election, Trump and his allies in key swing states pushed for the outcome to be overturned in phone calls, tweets and lawsuits.
Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on January 6, 2021
Donald Trump stated in a Truth Social post this weekend that he believes the 2024 election will be stolen from him
Trump faces federal and state charges in Georgia related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. He denies any wrongdoing.
Harris, as acting Vice President, will be on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2025, to oversee the certification of the election results alongside the Speaker of the House.
