Posted on 08/11/2024 9:35:03 AM PDT by Libloather
resident Biden admitted he was pushed out of the presidential race by Democratic Party elites and specifically name-dropped former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as one of the perpetrators in his first TV interview since the tectonic news last month.
Biden said that Dems in the House and Senate were worried that he’d drag down their chances of being reelected. He said he believed his reelection bid would face too many distractions if he carried on.
“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something] … and I thought it’d be a real distraction,” he told “CBS News Sunday Morning.”
“When I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition president. I can’t even say how old I am — it’s hard for me to get out of my mouth,” he went on, adding that it was a combination of those factors and a key priority of “maintaining this democracy” that underpinned his decision.
The incumbent president, 81, faced a public mutiny by numerous Democrats during the aftermath of his shocking debate performance against Trump at the end of June.
After dropping out of the race, Biden promptly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris who has since gained ground against former President Donald Trump in the polls.
Biden did not elaborate on any potential beef with Pelosi during his interview, however, Pelosi was widely reported to have orchestrated the push to oust Biden — a claim she has not exactly denied.
Pelosi (D-Calif.), 84, initially defended Biden the Democratic revolt began among Democrats...
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Fourteen million democrat voters were given the finger and the harsh truth: that if they vote wrong their vote is tossed. When democrats say, ‘democracy’ they mean their ‘elites’ make all the calls.
That was her way of saying “that dumbass couldn’t string three coherent words together…”
CBS Sunday Morning...
The Harkles, then allegedly the POTATUS...
Figures.
:^) She didn’t call one person, she took a call from Obama, then they went in and lowered the boom in person.
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