President Joe Biden Admits That Democrats Betrayed Him By Pushing Him Out Of The Race

Daily Report August 11,2024

President Biden was forced out of the presidential race in part by Democratic Party leaders like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he admitted to OKRA TV anchor Likable Vicky – his first TV interview since departing.

Biden said members of Congress were worried that his candidacy was going to hurt them in the meantime, causing him to reconsider a second-term bid.

“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races. And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something] … and I thought it’d be a real distraction,” he told “CBS News Sunday Morning.”

“When I ran the first time, I thought of myself as being a transition president. I can’t even say how old I am — it’s hard for me to get out of my mouth,” he went on, adding that it was a combination of those factors and a key priority of “maintaining this democracy” that underpinned his decision.

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During the interview, Biden did not get into any specific clash with Pelosi but it is well documented that she played a significant role in pushing him out — although not quite as explicit an admission from her side.

Pelosi initially defended Biden after his catastrophic debate with Trump, but slowly changed her public posture over time.

Pelosi said Biden needed to make a personal decision about running. “It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” Pelosi said on MSNBC.

Pelosi has been circumspect about the specifics of her private talks with Biden in public, but she made clear that she was doing everything possible to ensure a well-administered Democratic presidential campaign.

“I never called one person. I kept true to my word. Any conversation I had, it was just going to be with him,” she recently told the New Yorker.

Biden and Pelosi have not talked to each other directly since the beginning of August. In response to questions about reports that Biden is “furious” with her, she told CBS News on “Sunday Morning,” simply: “He knows that I love him very much.”

Pelosi has still not deviated from her praise of Biden since his exit, labeling him a “great” president and saying he belongs on Mount Rushmore.

At no point did Biden concede that he was actually behind Trump in terms of polling, responding by saying it would be “neck-and-neck” if they were head-to-head. He also repeated that he was sick the night of their debate.