Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi finally broke her fake alliance with Kamala Harris and admitted that the election “would have been different” if Democrats had held a special primary election after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, rather than just shoeing Kamala into the candidate seat.
Pelosi expressed what most Americans have expressed over the last several months. That there should have been an “open primary” so the people could vote for who they wanted, instead of being told who their candidate was.
The former House Speaker pushed for Biden to drop out in July. However, she said on the New York Times‘ November 9 episode of The Interview podcast, “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.”
Pelosi Blames Biden for Election Loss
Nancy Pelosi has blamed Joe Biden for Kamala Harris’s disastrous defeat in the presidential election, saying that if the President had exited the race sooner, “it would have been different.”
Nancy Pelosi has blamed Joe Biden for Kamala… pic.twitter.com/d4T1RSllH1— Urantian Lady (@UrantianL) November 10, 2024
She told host Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.”
Yet less than 36 hours after Biden endorsed Harris to take his place, she announced that she had locked in the Democratic nomination – with zero mention of a new primary.
“And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in [a primary] and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened,” Pelosi continued. “And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
It’s interesting that Pelosi is speaking out about it now though, considering she told Wall Street Journal in August that “it was an open process, anyone could have gotten in.”
Pelosi said at the time that Harris “had the endorsement of the president, and she, politically astutely, took advantage of it and shut down — not shut down, but won the nomination. But anybody else could have gotten in.”
Again in September, she reiterated to Semafor’s Kadia Goba that it was a “blessing” that Harris “took off with it.”
"We had an open primary and [Kamala Harris] won it. Nobody else got in the race," @SpeakerPelosi tells @kadiagoba. pic.twitter.com/y2O0JhKBgc
— Semafor (@semafor) September 18, 2024
“No, I didn’t change my mind. We had an open primary; she [Harris] won it. Nobody else got in the race,” Pelosi told Goba. “Yes, people could have jumped in — there were some people who were sort of preparing, but she just took off with it, and actually it was a blessing because there was not that much time between then and the election and it sort of saved time.”
The truth ALWAYS comes out. Democrats are now reeling from the consequences of cheating Americans out of due process? Maybe next time they will think about that rather than attempting to perform a coup.