President Biden gave a halting reply to the hosts of ABC’s “The View” Wednesday when asked about his relationship with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — insisting in a starkly revisionist telling that she hadn’t forced him to end his campaign for a second term.
“Did you feel that your hand was forced and what is your relationship with Speaker Pelosi now?” asked co-host Alyssa Farah, who worked as White House communications director for then-President Donald Trump before becoming a critic of her former boss.
“My relationship is fine — look, I …,” the 81-year-old lame-duck leader began.
“I never fully believed the assertions that somehow there was this overwhelming reluctance to my running again, I didn’t sense that,” Biden finally said.
“And although the polling — they said Biden polling was different. The fact of the matter is, my polling was about where, you know, about always within range of beating this guy.”
