‘It didn’t sound like Joe’, Pelosi says of Biden's 2024 letter
Questions still swirl around the resignation of President Joe Biden from the 2024 presidential election.
In addition to the expected criticism for the Democrat party from the right, even high-profile Democrats have added their concerns about Biden's previous announcements about his campaign, according to a report by The New York Post.
The report asserted that Ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has openly voiced her doubts about whether President Biden actually wrote the letter that he sent to Democrats last month insisting he was “firmly committed” to staying in the race.
Biden, 81, sent the missive to congressional Dems to try to put to rest any notion that he’d exit the race over widespread concerns about his mental acuity after his June 27 debate performance against GOP foe Donald Trump. Two weeks later, Biden dropped out.
Pelosi's Comments
“I didn’t accept the letter as anything but a letter,” Pelosi (D-CA) told New York Times columnist Ezra Klein in a recent interview.. “I mean, there are some people who are unhappy with the letter.
“Let me say it differently. Some said that some people were unhappy with the letter. I’ll put it in somebody else’s mouth. It didn’t sound like Joe Biden to me. It really didn’t,” she said.
The 84-year-old Pelosi made headlines two days after Biden sent the letter when she appeared on "Morning Joe," a political program on MSNBC that is said to be a favorite of the president.
“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” she said during her appearance, despite the fact that the interview came on the heels of Biden's written insistence that he was still in the race. “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short.”
More Questions
When Pelosi was asked about the disparity between her remarks and the letter that Biden had written, she responded at the time by saying, "Whatever he decides, we go with."
Rumor has it that Pelosi was trying to tell the president to give up when she made those comments on that show. It provided Democrats with "space" to rebel against Biden, according to certain commentators including New Yorker editor David Remnick.
Pelosi has asserted that her sole purpose for appearing on the show was to support Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a dissident politician from Belarus.
By telling the New Yorker that she was "never that impressed with [Biden’s] political operation,” Pelosi reiterated her tired excuse that all she wanted was a successful presidential campaign.
The Rational
“I wanted to see a campaign that could win. Because I had made a decision that I stayed in Congress to defeat what’s-his-name, because I think he is a danger to our country,” Pelosi reflected, referring to former President Donald Trump.
Reps. Adam Schiff (D–CA) and Zoe Lofgren (D–CA), two of Pelosi’s most important allies, went beyond her public pronouncements and joined the revolt against Biden’s re-election campaign.