Posted on 08/17/2024 3:19:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Every now and then, politicians allow the truth to seep into their carefully crafted talking points. That’s exactly what happened when Nancy Pelosi went on the record to confirm that Kamala Harris was not the Democrats’ original choice to be their presidential nominee in 2024 when Joe Biden was ousted in an orchestrated coup back in July.
This is what Pelosi told Ezra Klein of The New York Times, as it appears in the interview transcript:
Yeah, well, I think here’s the thing. The thought was that if this were to happen, but it happened fast, we ... none of us had any idea he would do it that Sunday. Well, I didn’t have any idea. Most people didn’t. So when he did that and endorsed [Kamala Harris], then the thought was everybody wanted an open process. Let’s see the talent, let’s see the bench of the Democrats and let them come. And see what they can attract. But when he endorsed her, then it was, “Are you with me or not?” And she moved quickly.
This was a bombshell confession. On the one hand, we all know that Pelosi had been conspiring with Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama to get rid of Joe Biden on the ticket after recognizing the polling damage that his obvious senility and terrible performance as president had caused. On the other hand, she admits to being blindsided by the timing of Biden’s withdrawal and also admits to have been blindsided by his simultaneous endorsement of Kamala Harris, suggesting that “everybody wanted an open process” to identify the party’s candidate.
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We can dream but how high will the Kamala mania be after this week’s convention hysteria and Hollywood dream story of her status above God to the American public?
Some polls show all or nearly all of the swing states already have Kamala ahead and there is a danger she could get lazy voters to just vote all Dem while voting “to get a woman up there, finally” and “to guard us against black people being enslaved again by Trump” and then bring in a Dem House and Senate. God forbid.
We have to take this takeover seriously.
I hope Kamala drinks a bit before the debate. I need it to be more fun than the Biden one.
The DNC convention should be very interesting.
I think we need to get everyone registered and to the polls, but I don’t see Kamala ahead in a couple weeks, which is why Merchan will try to put trump in jail immediately so they can try to kill him.
Pisslosey should have just come out and say that he is a Potato.
This has been known since prior to the primaries in 2020.
And this is why the Dems have returned to “lawfare” as their primary strategy, and they look forward to September 18.
Good points.
So someone is even more cynical than I.
I don’t mean that in a bad way, we are just two people who see the immensity of the evil in a group that would try to kill our candidate rather than lose the grip on power in DC.
Only our side has been under threat from assassins.
Will they all wear kneepads to the convention?
She was the VP.The whole point of a VP is to replace you if something happens. If it’s after the primary I think the VP is the only person who could replace the presidential candidate
To me, it’s wildly questionable as to why the DNC (Democrats) would actually ‘chose’ her without benefit of the peoples’ confirmation. They just didn’t act as quickly and decisively and completely as they should have. Now its’ “Hairy/Balz !!!! 2024”
Of course Pantload Joe was mad. As a lifelong politician the RAT mop just denied him his main purpose in life. So he gets revenge by picking the dumbest candidate ever to run for President.
Wait for a couple weeks when the swing States polling shows Trump with a winning margin. The rats will abandon Harris much in the way they do with ships on fire.
Of course not. Apparently, Barry wanted an open convention so the delegates can choose the best candidate. But Joe put an end to that by endorsing Kamala.
Not sure if that's how things happened. But that's my understanding of it so far.
Speculation is such among talking heads that someone wrote the resignation letter for Joe (it wasn’t on White House stationery).
Then Joe’s people saw it and said “You do this to us, okay then. You get Kamala in return!”
I think, with Trump’s strange luck or providence, Merchan will sentence him to years in prison, which will immediately be suspended due to appeal and the trial will be vacated sometime in October with some really cruel commentary on Merchan’s illegalities and conflicts. NY appeals may not like trump, but they probably hate perversion of law more.
Trump won’t see prison.
I’ve never believed Kamabla will survive the convention as the nominee.
Big Mike or/and Hillary will emerge.
Obama’s plan the whole time.
it will be an edible to calm her nerves
Yes I remember Obama saying at the time that he was wanting to see a vigorous nomination process.
Then later on he and Michelle Obama orchestrated that staged phone call to say that they were endorsing her.
But Obama specifically did not endorse her at first.
I wonder if obama and Nancy Pelosi got blind sided by quickly moving events and could not control the outcome.
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