Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admitted she has not spoken to President Joe Biden since his unceremonious ouster from the top of the Democrat Party ticket.
The California congresswoman still considers Biden a close friend, despite her gymnastic efforts to get him to announce the end of his re-election bid in July before he endorsed his vice president to continue without him.
“Not since then, no,” Pelosi told the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland on the Politics Weekly America podcast. “But I’m prayerful about it.”
“I have the greatest respect for him. I think he’s one of the great consequential presidents of our country,” she added.
“I think his legacy had to be protected. I didn’t see that happening in the course that it was on, the election was on. My call was just to: ‘Let’s get on a better course.’ He will make the decision as to what that is. And he made that decision,” Pelosi continued, shining some light on the part she played in Biden’s spiral into irrelevance. “But I think he has some unease because we’ve been friends for decades.”
“Elections are decisions,” she said, revealing her calculated play to stack the deck for Democrats. “You decide to win. I decided a while ago that Donald Trump will never set foot in the White House again as president of the United States or in any other capacity … So when you make a decision, you have to make every decision in favor of winning … and the most important decision of all is the candidate.”
While she claimed “leadership is about respect, about consensus building,” there was an admission that some in the party were still angry with her actions. But her Trump Derangement Syndrome would not allow for the alternative: letting former President Donald Trump get re-elected.
“I hardly ever say his name,” she said of the Republican presidential nominee whom she described as “what’s his name.”
“I think [Trump is] a grotesque word … You just don’t like the word passing your lips. I just don’t. I’m afraid, you know, when I grew up Catholic, as I am now, if you said a bad word, you could burn in hell if you didn’t have a chance to confess. So I don’t want to take any chances,” she ranted.
“It’s up there with, like, swearing,” Pelosi added.
The former speaker had nothing but praise for Vice President Kamala Harris and her history-making campaign.
“I always thought America was more ready for a woman president than a woman speaker of the House,” she told the Guardian. “The Congress of the United States is not a glass ceiling there. It’s a marble ceiling. And it was very hard to rise up there. But the public, I think, is better disposed … In Congress, they would say to me: “Understand this, there’s been a pecking order here for a long time of men who’ve been waiting for openings to happen and take their turn.” And I said: “That’s interesting. We’ve been waiting over 200 years.”
Harris, she contended, is not running as “the first woman or first woman of color.”
“She’s running on her strength, her knowledge of policy and strategy and presentation and the rest. And I think that’s a different race than Hillary Clinton ran,” she added.
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