Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended President Biden on Sunday throughout an interview on CNN after the presidential debate, and recommended former President Trump has “dementia.”
CNN host Dana Bash requested Pelosi if there was any a part of her that believed Biden ought to step apart.
“My people are very much Biden-Kamala Harris and this is an opportunity for Joe Biden to go out there and show he has the stamina,” she responded. “And by the way, while the press and for some reason they don‘t – there are health care professionals who think that Trump has dementia, that his connection, his thoughts do not go together. Not only that he just lies, he doesn‘t even know the truth, so if we‘re just talking about mental acuity, let’s be fair about it.”Â
Pelosi stated lawmakers see Biden “up close,” and insisted he was nicely conscious of the problems dealing with Americans.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday and defended President Biden following his debate efficiency. (Screenshot/CNN)
“We know how attuned he is to the issues, we know how informed he is. I debate with him about the issues, not debate, but discuss it with him. He‘s right there. So, in any case, it was a bad night. Let’s not sugarcoat that. It was a bad night. It was a great presidency. And that’s what the American people have to choose,” Pelosi continued.Â
After Pelosi praised Biden and listed a number of of his accomplishments, Bash informed the Democratic lawmaker she made “the argument for Joe Biden‘s reelection in a way that he did not.”
Bash asked if there was a mechanism that would work if Biden wanted to step aside.
“There’s nothing as nicely, as simply as Joe Biden getting up and taking the ball over the end line. Something else might be chaotic,” Pelosi responded.
President Joe Biden appears down as he participates within the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections with former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP through Getty Images)
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“I don‘t say that to say that could never happen because it might, I don’t mean now. I mean, in history it could. But understand this, this is really important for people to understand. Joe Biden has won the nomination. He has won the nomination,” Pelosi stated.Â
Bash pushed again and stated he did not formally have the nomination but.
“The roll-call has been happening around the country, because of the timing of the election. It’s a very different year,” Pelosi countered.
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Tom Friedman, a columnist for The New York Times and a pal to Biden, known as on the previous president to drop out, saying the controversy made him “weep.”
“If he insists on running, and he loses to Trump, Biden and his family — and his staff and party members who enabled him — will not be able to show their faces,” he wrote.Â