Nancy Pelosi said “we would have to ask” Joe Biden about the status of their relationship after the former House speaker admitted she hasn’t spoken to him since his re-election campaign ended.
The two longtime Democratic Party leaders have been allies in Washington for decades, but some have alleged that Pelosi was part of the effort to oust Biden, 81, from the race.
Pelosi, appearing on CNN as part of a media tour to promote her new memoir, did not appear to dissuade those rumors when asked about Biden on Monday.
Dana Bash asked: ‘Have you spoken to President Biden since he left office?’
“No,” replied Pelosi, 84, whose official title is now Speaker of the House after leaving office in 2023.
Nancy Pelosi said she would “have to ask” Joe Biden about the status of their relationship after the former House speaker admitted she hasn’t spoken to him since his re-election campaign ended.
The two longtime Democratic Party leaders have been allies in Washington for decades, but some have alleged that Pelosi was part of the effort to oust Biden, 81, from the race.
Bash then asked, ‘Is everything okay with your relationship?’
“You’d have to ask him,” Pelosi said.
Earlier on Monday, Pelosi He revealed the brutal reason why he wanted Biden to get out of the presidential race.
“I was calling for a winnable campaign and I didn’t see that on the horizon,” he told ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday.
But she denied reports that she led a pressure campaign to pressure Biden to drop out of the race.
“The only person I spoke to about this was the president. Other people called me to give me their opinion on it, but I rarely returned a call, let alone initiated one,” he said.
The former House speaker has spent much of her interviews praising Biden for dropping out of the race, even telling CBS that he belongs on Mount Rushmore.
There are reports that Biden is angry with her for her role in his impeachment. Pelosi was working behind the scenes to try to calm panicked Democrats after Biden’s first debate performance, where he stared into space and struggled to answer questions.
Democrats were worried that with Biden at the top of the ticket, they would lose the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House.
Pelosi, appearing on CNN as part of a media tour to promote her new memoir, did not appear to dissuade those rumors when asked about Biden on Monday.
There are reports that Biden is angry with her for her role in his impeachment. Pelosi was working behind the scenes to try to calm panicked Democrats after Biden’s first debate performance, where he stared into space and struggled to answer questions.
Pelosi was said to be relaying those messages to the White House.
In public, he has always said he was confident Biden would make the right decision, a message he repeated in Monday’s interview.
“I have the utmost respect for the president,” she told GMA. “I think he will be one of the most important presidents of our country. I want him, his legacy, to be recognized and preserved.”
“I wasn’t asking him to resign. I was asking him to run a winning campaign. And I didn’t see that on the horizon,” he said.
He also explained what it takes to run a winning campaign: “Winning an election is a decision. You make the decision to win and you make all the decisions in favor of winning, in terms of how you mobilize at the grassroots level and own the ground to get out the vote.”
“How to present a message that is bold and progressive, but not threatening to the public. And how to raise the money to do it, to attract it mainly from small donors. And then the most important decision is the candidate.”