US election: Nancy Pelosi blames Joe Biden for his election defeat

Who is to blame for the Democrats’ election fiasco in the US election? After former President Barack Obama and incumbent President Joe Biden already blamed each other, Nancy Pelosi is now also getting involved in the debate. In an article published in full by the New York Times on Saturday, the former speaker of the House of Representatives blames Joe Biden for the fiasco. “If Biden had given up his campaign earlier, there probably would have been more candidates,” Pelosi said on the Times podcast “The Interview.” The Democrats assumed that if Biden had abstained, there would have been a primary election, the so-called primaries.

After a catastrophic TV debate with future US President Donald Trump, Joe Biden hesitated for several weeks before announcing his resignation at the end of July. But that was only because the pressure on the president within the Democratic Party was increasing. Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi were among those pushing for a withdrawal.

But Pelosi, who has served in the US Congress since 1987 and defended her seat in the election, criticized not only the lack of a primary, but also another action by Joe Biden. “Because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately after his withdrawal, a primary election was nearly impossible.” If he had resigned earlier, many things would have been different, emphasized the 84-year-old. In fact, within an hour of his resignation, Joe Biden had endorsed his vice president as a presidential candidate. A short time later, the Democrats nominated the 60-year-old without any competition from her.

Pelosi refused to criticize Kamala Harris. “I think Kamala would have done very well in a primary and she would have come out stronger,” Pelosi speculated. But we don’t know that because it didn’t happen. “Now we live with what happened.”