‘You got what you wanted’: Fetterman blasts Pelosi for ousting Biden

The senator recommended that Pelosi, 84, who has been a US House representative since 1987, look in the mirror and leave Congress so that a younger generation can lead. The former House Speaker had made the remarks in an interview with The New York Times.

"People like Pelosi, she really tried to - what's the word I'm looking for? - she embraced this 'She's the godmother, she's the enforcer.' And now she's blaming Biden. Well, you can't have it both ways. You got what you wanted, and now you're still blaming Biden," Fetterman told Politico. "I think it's really ironic that you have a woman at age 84 and she is still hanging on. Why not give a younger generation an opportunity to occupy that seat?"

After Biden's dismal performance in the June 27 debate against then-Republican nominee Donald Trump, Pelosi reportedly worked behind the scenes to support Democrats' efforts to remove Biden from the 2024 election. Pelosi dismissed rumors that she was a driving force behind Biden's exit in an interview with CBS News in Aug. but revealed that she hadn't spoken to the president since he announced his withdrawal on July 21.

On whether Sen. Fetterman believed that Biden would have secured a victory for the Democrats if he had stayed in the race, Fetterman told the paper: "We'll never know if Biden would win or not. We knew it was going to be very close. It was really tough."

He then slammed VP Kamala Harris for referring to Trump supporters as "fascists" on the campaign trail, saying it was a losing game with which he disagreed. "I love people that are absolutely going to vote for Trump. They're not fascists. They're not those things. I think if you go to the tickle switch, use those kinds of terms, then it's kind of hard to walk back on those things."

"That's kind of a word that really isn't part of the vernacular for voters," he continued. "Scolding harder or clutching the pearls harder, that's never going to work for Democrats."