Democratic tenor Nancy Pelosi believes that her party would have had a better chance of winning the presidential election if Joe Biden “had withdrawn earlier”.
Time to settle scores. After the dismal failure of Kamala Harris against Donald Trump in the presidential election, the blame is focused on Joe Biden, who withdrew from the race for the White House in favor of his vice-president just four months from now. ballot.
In an interview given to a New York Times podcast, Democratic tenor Nancy Pelosi does not mince her words against the American head of state. “If the president had withdrawn earlier, there might have been other candidates in the race,” she said during an exchange which will be broadcast in full this Saturday, November 9, and of which the first Excerpts were published by the newspaper.
“Impossible to organize primaries”
“We expected that, if the president withdrew, there would be an open primary,” said Nancy Pelosi, who pushed internally this summer for the Democratic president, weakened by a catastrophic debate against Donald Trump , withdraws his candidacy.
According to the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Kamala Harris could have “done well” in a primary and emerged “stronger”.
“That did not happen… And because the president immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, it was virtually impossible to hold primaries at that time. If it had been done much earlier, things would have been different,” regrets the 84-year-old Democrat, re-elected Tuesday for a new term in the House of Representatives.
Exchange of blows in the press
Those around Joe Biden and Kamala Harris accuse each other of having precipitated the fall of the Democratic camp, with harsh statements in the press.
David Plouffe, a member of Kamala Harris' campaign team, raged in a tweet on Wednesday against the “deep hole” from which the Democrats were forced to dig themselves out during this blitzkrieg campaign.
The influential former mayor of New York Mike Bloomberg raged against those who would have “concealed the infirmities of President Joe Biden until they become undeniable”.
“How could you spend a billion dollars without winning?”, a former member of Joe Biden’s team asked Axios.
Assailed by questions about possible regrets from the Democratic president, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said she was leaving the subject to “experts”, and assured that Joe Biden was “proud” of his record . During his first speech Thursday since the Democrats' defeat, the 81-year-old leader did not seem to engage in an exercise in introspection either.
The “abandoned” working class?
On the left and in the center of the party, several elected officials have denounced a disconnection with the working classes and a party which has not learned the lessons of its first failure against Donald Trump in 2016.
“It should surprise no one that a Democratic Party that has abandoned the working class finds itself abandoned by the working class,” thundered socialist senator Bernie Sanders in an incendiary statement.
Like Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris effectively lost valuable votes among the white middle class. The Republican even managed to expand his base, making notable inroads with non-college-educated black and Latino voters.
Kamala Harris facing Donald Trump's victory
For Democrat Tom Suozzi, his party's disconnect with the working classes does not only concern economic issues. The elected official criticized his camp for having chosen as a ground for confrontation with the Republicans societal issues which worry the progressive elites, to the detriment of the substantive issues which concern the working classes.
He cited as an example the question of the rights of transgender people or the Pro-Palestinian demonstrations which shook American campuses in the spring. “Many Americans are simply more afraid of the left than of what President Trump will do,” warned the New York elected official in a press release.
Democratic leader Jaime Harrison strongly criticized accusations that his party had turned its back on workers, calling them “pure bullshit.” “There are a lot of analyzes circulating after this election and this one is not one of the good ones,” he said in a publication on X.
This official, very close to Joe Biden, has already made it known that he will not run for office, paving the way for a change of leadership among the Democrats at the start of next year.
