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The elected Democrat Nancy Pelosi pointed out the responsibility of Joe Biden in the failure of the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in the American presidential election.
UNITED STATES – We replay the match. After Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election was more resounding than in 2016, the donkey party is faced with its responsibilities. And for Nancy Pelosi, the former powerful Speaker of the House of Representatives, Joe Biden should have withdrawn earlier from the Democratic campaign, to allow several other candidates to emerge during an open primary.
“If the president had withdrawn earlier, there might have been other candidates in the race”said the Californian elected official in an interview for the podcast New York Times. Several members of the Democratic Party in fact expected that an open primary could take place after the abandonment of Joe Biden. But only a few months before the November 5 deadline, it was Vice-President Kamala Harris who emerged and received support and funding from the Democratic camp, including from the president himself.
An open primary which would not necessarily have excluded Kamala Harris specifies Nancy Pelosi: “ Kamala could have, I think she would have done well and would have been stronger in the future.” While insisting on the fact that because the withdrawal was too late, on July 21, no consultation was really possible. “ Because the president immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, it was virtually impossible to hold primaries at that time. If this had been done much earlier, things would have been different”.
The elected official defends the Democratic record
It only took Joe Biden an hour to support his vice-president in the race for the White House, after announcing his withdrawal, due to concerns about his health. In the shadows, Nancy Pelosi had been working for several weeks to abandon the current president, after her catastrophic debate against Donald Trump, recalls the New York Times.
But despite her criticism, the one who was re-elected for a 20th term defended in this interview Joe Biden's record in the White House, when she herself was at the head of the House, at least during the first two years.
While Bernie Sanders claimed that Democrats lost because of a lack of proposals addressing the economic concerns of working-class voters, Nancy Pelosi flatly denied the accusation. “Bernie Sanders did not win”, she defended herself. For the 84-year-old elected official, it is rather cultural issues that have kept working-class voters away from the Democratic Party, for example on “guns, God and homosexuals”she was indignant.
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