Pelosi confirms no communication between her and Biden since she forced him out of presidential race: report

Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden are still not talking, months after the former House Speaker decided to pull the plug on President Joe Biden’s dreams of a second term and urged him out as the Democratic presidential candidate, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

Pelosi’s aggressive intervention reportedly left both Joe and Jill Biden shaken and embittered towards the aged but occasionally still agile Democratic boss, who is actually a bit older than Biden. Days before he suddenly announced his departure from the presidential race, Biden was still talking about how he wasn’t going anywhere, even though his performance in the debate with former President Donald Trump on June 27 was rated abysmal even by Democratic Party apologists. After offing Biden, Pelosi went on to claim that Vice President Kamala Harris had won the nomination in an “open primary.”

Pelosi confirmed Tuesday in a podcast with the Guardian that the two, who were once both political allies and close friends, had not spoken since she moved against Biden. “Not since then, no. But I'm prayerful about it,” she told the outlet, insisting that she insisted Biden leave the ticket for the good of the Democratic Party – and its ability to win the presidential election.

“Elections are decisions. You decide to win. I decided a while ago that Donald Trump will never set foot in the White House again as president of the United States or in any other capacity,” she told the Guardian. “So when you make a decision, you have to make every decision in favor of winning ... and the most important decision of all is the candidate.”

Despite making such a cold calculation, Pelosi insisted she maintains a high regard for Biden. “I have the greatest respect for him. I think he's one of the great consequential presidents of our country. I think his legacy had to be protected. I didn't see that happening in the course that it was on, the election was on. My call was just to: ‘Let's get on a better course.’”

Pelosi just pushed Biden onto that “better course." She claimed that what prompted her to tell Biden it was time to go was a July 8, 2024 letter that was apparently written and signed by Biden in which the president indicated he had no intention of stepping aside for another Democratic candidate. “'I didn't accept the letter as anything but a letter,” she said. “It didn't sound like Joe Biden to me. It really didn't.”

Pelosi has made veiled references to the animosity that now exists between the Bidens and the Pelosis. When asked by CNN about the conflict, Nancy Pelosi merely said, “Sometimes you have to take a punch for the children,” the Mail noted.

But then she insisted that Biden had “made the decision for the country'” as she noted how there was so much enthusiasm surrounding Harris. She has been a vocal supporter of Harris ever since. “She's running on her strength, her knowledge of policy and strategy and presentation and the rest. And I think that's a different race than Hillary Clinton ran,” Pelosi told the Guardian.