People around Joe Biden blame Nancy Pelosi for Kamala Harris’ election loss, while Democrats have begun arguing over who caused the party’s disaster.
It came as the president, 82, reacted to Harris’ concession speech at Howard University on Wednesday.
The blame game accelerated last night, when Biden confidants told senior White House reporters that they held the former House speaker responsible for his exit from the race.
‘Bidenworld’ sources claim that the president should not only have stayed in the race but would have won over the white working-class voters that Harris largely ceded to Donald Trump.
Pelosi’s claim that he was kicked out of the race is comparable to how Biden blames Barack Obama for demanding that he not run in 2016 against Hillary Clinton.
People around Joe Biden are blaming Nancy Pelosi for Kamala Harris’ election loss after the president reacted to Kamala Harris’ concession speech on Wednesday.
Disputes over who was to blame for Kamala Harris’ loss in the presidential election began in earnest even before the result was announced, involving everyone from Tim Walz to white women and Biden himself.
However, there was also a sense of betrayal within the president’s ranks, as sources said. cnn Chief White House correspondent Kayla Tausche said he himself “was more deeply unpopular than anyone imagined.”
Other Democratic pundits have blamed Tim Walz for being too leftist, too folksy, and too tainted by the Kenosha riots, while others have blamed every possible demographic.
Not enough white women showed up, too many Black men defected to Donald Trump since 2020, and Hispanic voters abandoned the party.
Media analysts also speculated that Joe Biden should have canceled his candidacy long before his disastrous debate performance.
They argued that this would have given Harris more time to establish herself or allowed for an open primary to select a stronger candidate.
Earlier Tuesday, Biden appeared to begin the peaceful transition of power by offering an olive branch to Trump.
Later, he offered his reaction to Harris’s teary-eyed concession speech.
‘What America saw today was the Kamala Harris that I know and deeply admire. “She has been a tremendous partner and public servant full of integrity, courage and character,” he wrote.
New reports suggest the president’s inner circle is pursuing Pelosi, the woman believed to have plunged the knife into his former ally’s back to get him out of the race.
Earlier Tuesday, Biden appeared to begin the peaceful transition of power by offering an olive branch to Trump. Later, he offered his reaction to Harris’s teary-eyed concession speech.
Biden said very little about her loss, but congratulated her for running a “historic campaign” despite “extraordinary circumstances” after he was forced out of the race.
‘As I said before, selecting Kamala was the first decision I made when I became a presidential candidate in 2020. It was the best decision I made. His story represents the best of American history. And as he made clear today, I have no doubt that he will continue to write that story,” he added.
He ended by saying that “she will continue to be a leader that children will look up to for generations.”
Biden called Trump to congratulate him on his dominant victory over Harris and invited him to the White House.
The 81-year-old commander in chief extended the olive branch to the president-elect a week after calling his followers “trash” and hours after being confirmed as his successor.
The White House confirmed that Biden and Trump spoke by phone Wednesday afternoon and “emphasized the importance of working to bring the country together” as well as a “smooth transition.”
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung confirmed that the new president-elect had accepted.
“President Trump looks forward to the meeting, which will take place shortly, and greatly appreciated the call,” Cheung said in a statement.
Trump and Biden met on the debate stage in June in a performance that sparked the litany that forced the Democrat to drop out of the race.
The 81-year-old commander in chief extended the olive branch to the president-elect a week after calling his followers “trash” and hours after being confirmed as his successor.
Trump and Biden frequently traded highly personal jabs during the campaign, with the Republican taking aim at the president’s decline and the Democrat saying he was the kind of person he’d like to “kick in the butt.”
Biden has said he will attend Trump’s inauguration, after the president-elect skipped his in 2020 and instead flew directly to Mar-a-Lago.
Harris had a warning for the president-elect, lecturing him even as she congratulated him.
The vice president’s concession call, which was confirmed shortly before 2 p.m. ET, came after Michigan was called for the president-elect, giving it the third state in the ‘blue wall’ of states that would decide the election.
Trump’s team confirmed Harris’ call and said the president-elect recognized Harris’ “professionalism” and “tenacity.”
Harris is on track to do worse than Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential election. He might even be on track for the worst Electoral College result of any Democrat since the 1988 race.
Democrats were counting on the “blue wall” to give Harris the White House. But Trump won three states: Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.