Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed in a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” that she still has not spoken to President Joe Biden since he decided to step down in the wake of his disastrous debate performance.
“No,” Biden and Pelosi haven’t talked, she said, but the California Democrat insists that isn’t unusual. “He knows I love him.”
The former speaker has been tight-lipped about what sort of role she played in the days leading up to Biden’s decision to step aside. “At some point, I will come to terms with my, to peace, with my own role in this,” she told the Associated Press.
“I think that part of all of our goals in this was to preserve his legacy, a fabulous legacy, that would go right down the drain if Bozo got elected to the White House,” she added, referring to former President Donald Trump.
In an interview with The New Yorker, Pelosi emphasized that she remains focused on keeping Trump out of office, and that any actions she took were to make sure “that Donald Trump would never set foot in the White House again.”
Pressed on her comments on Biden’s future on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” last month, Pelosi admitted that she had concerns about the race.
“But my concern was: This ain’t happening, and we have to make a decision for this to happen,” she told the New Yorker. “The president has to make the decision for that to happen. People were calling. I never called one person. I kept true to my word. Any conversation I had, it was just going to be with him. I never made one call. They said I was burning up the lines, I was talking to (Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer). I didn’t talk to Chuck at all.”
