Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended President Biden in a CNN interview on Sunday. after the presidential debate, and suggested that former President Trump was suffering from “dementia.”
CNN host Dana Bash asked Pelosi if there was a part of her that thought Biden should step down.
“My people are very much Biden-Kamala Harris and this is an opportunity for Joe Biden to go out there and show that he has the stamina,” she responded. “And by the way, while the press, for whatever reason, isn’t doing it, there are medical professionals who think that Trump has dementia, that his connection, his thoughts don’t go together. Not only he’s lying, but he doesn’t even know the truth, so if we’re just talking about mental acuity, let’s be honest.
Pelosi said lawmakers are seeing Biden “up close” and insisted he is well aware of the problems facing Americans.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday and defended President Biden following his debate performance. (Screenshot/CNN)
“We know how attentive he is to the issues, we know how informed he is. I debate the issues with him, I don’t argue, but I discuss them with him. He’s there. So, either way, it was a bad night. Let’s not hide our faces. It was a bad evening. It was a great presidency. And that is what the American people must choose,” continued Nancy Pelosi.
After Pelosi congratulated Biden and listed several of his accomplishments, Bash told the Democratic lawmaker that she had made “the case for Joe Biden’s re-election in a way that he did not.”
Bash asked if there was a mechanism that would work if Biden wanted to withdraw.
“There’s nothing better than seeing Joe Biden stand up and cross the finish line with the ball. Something else could be chaotic,” Nancy Pelosi responded.
President Joe Biden looks down as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election with former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the CNN studios in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 2024. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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“I don’t say that to say it could never happen, because it could happen, I don’t mean right now. I mean, in history, it could happen. But understand this, it’s really important for people to understand this. Joe Biden won the nomination. He won the nomination,” Nancy Pelosi said.
Bash fired back and said he didn’t officially have the nomination yet.
“The roll call was held across the country, because of the timing of the election. It’s a very different year,” Pelosi said.
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Tom Friedman, a New York Times columnist and friend of Biden, called the former the president gives upsaying the debate had made him “cry”.
“If he insists on running and loses to Trump, Biden and his family – and his team and the party members who helped him – won’t be able to show their faces,” he said. writing.
