Jennifer Bendery is a senior politics reporter for HuffPost. She has covered Congress and the White House for HuffPost since April 2011. She previously reported on Congress for four years for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and spent four years covering the Texas Legislature for GalleryWatch in Austin, TX.
But in an extensive interview, the former longtime House speaker made it clear that Biden’s campaign was failing, that the single most important thing to her is defeatingin November — and, in a rare glimpse into how she’s feeling about this process, that perhaps one day she will reconcile with her role in influencing her decades-long colleague, ally and beloved friend to bow out.“History’s in a hurry.
"At some point, I will come to terms with my own peace, with my own role in this," Rep. Nancy Pelosi said of her part in President Joe Biden's decision to no longer run for reelection.The interview was originally scheduled for Pelosi to pitch her new book, “The Art of Power.” But in the time between her wrapping up the book in April and her sit-down with reporters came Biden’sagainst Trump, and the intense fallout that led to Biden dropping his reelection bid.
Though the California Democrat has remained tight-lipped, she is generally seen as a linchpin of her party’s calls for Biden to end his reelection campaign. Her own daughter has brought it up with her — and Pelosi didn’t exactly say it was a horrible thing. But like the California Democrat said herself, her top priority is defeating Trump in November ― and a Democratic presidential ticket sagging in the polls four months before the election isn’t the way to do it.that “it’s up to the president to decide” whether to stay in the race, a comment that some read as her opening the door for Democrats to go public with concerns about his ability to defeat Trump.“It was not my intention to put him on the spot on the show,” Pelosi said Wednesday.
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