Ahead of her departure from the White House, first lady Jill Biden voiced displeasure with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over how the prominent House Democrat fueled a revolt against President Joe Biden during the 2024 election.
The Washington Post published a report on Wednesday about its “exit interview” with Jill Biden, noting that the first lady has become the “keeper of the family grudges” — a nod to what she wrote in her 2019 memoir about recalling “every slight committed” against the people that she loves.
“Which brings us to Nancy Pelosi, whom Jill has known nearly as long as Joe,” the report said. “Who had been a close friend to Joe as they ascended to the highest tier of American politics. Whom Jill couldn’t wait to invite to the White House once coronavirus restrictions allowed the Bidens to entertain. And who went on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ in July with a shiv.”
Though he won the Democratic Party’s 2024 nomination with the support of more than 14 million primary voters, then-81-year-old Joe Biden bowed out of the White House race in July following a fumbling debate performance against former President Donald Trump under pressure from allies who raised concerns about his age, mental acuity, and electability. Vice President Kamala Harris, with Biden’s endorsement, quickly garnered support and became the Democrats’ presidential nominee. Harris ended up losing to Trump.
During this time, CNN reported Pelosi privately told Biden that polls showed he could not defeat Trump like he did in 2020 and that he could hurt other members of his party in down-ticket races if he did not bow out. And, in what is widely viewed as a key tipping point — the MSNBC interview — Pelosi emphasized that she would support whatever decision Biden made about his political future at a time when the president was already insisting he would not leave the race. “It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” she said. Her remarks on MSNBC reportedly emboldened more Democrats to turn on Biden.
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According to The Washington Post, this is how the exchange with Jill Biden when it came to Pelosi went down:
“‘Like I said,’ Jill says now, seated in the Green Room of the White House on the first Sunday of January, ‘I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships.’
Her face, nearly pearlescent with lustrous foundation, betrays no particular emotion. She’s holding a china cup.
Tea. With honey and lemon.
‘It’s been on my mind a lot lately, and — ‘
Jill pauses.
‘We were friends for 50 years.’ She is using her teacher’s voice now. ‘It was disappointing.’”
After Harris lost the presidential election to Trump, Pelosi appeared to blame the outcome on Joe Biden during an interview with The New York Times.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said, adding, “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.”
Pelosi also said: “And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
There had been reports that Joe Biden was frustrated at Pelosi, among others, for pressing him to step aside. However, Biden insisted during an interview on ABC’s “The View” in September that his relationship with Pelosi was “fine.” Joe Biden also claimed — as he has done multiple times now — that he was “confident” that he would have beaten Trump in a rematch.
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Ahead of her departure from the White House, first lady Jill Biden voiced displeasure with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over how the prominent House Democrat fueled a revolt against President Joe Biden during the 2024 election.
The Washington Post published a report on Wednesday about its “exit interview” with Jill Biden, noting that the first lady has become the “keeper of the family grudges” — a nod to what she wrote in her 2019 memoir about recalling “every slight committed” against the people that she loves.
“Which brings us to Nancy Pelosi, whom Jill has known nearly as long as Joe,” the report said. “Who had been a close friend to Joe as they ascended to the highest tier of American politics. Whom Jill couldn’t wait to invite to the White House once coronavirus restrictions allowed the Bidens to entertain. And who went on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ in July with a shiv.”
Though he won the Democratic Party’s 2024 nomination with the support of more than 14 million primary voters, then-81-year-old Joe Biden bowed out of the White House race in July following a fumbling debate performance against former President Donald Trump under pressure from allies who raised concerns about his age, mental acuity, and electability. Vice President Kamala Harris, with Biden’s endorsement, quickly garnered support and became the Democrats’ presidential nominee. Harris ended up losing to Trump.
During this time, CNN reported Pelosi privately told Biden that polls showed he could not defeat Trump like he did in 2020 and that he could hurt other members of his party in down-ticket races if he did not bow out. And, in what is widely viewed as a key tipping point — the MSNBC interview — Pelosi emphasized that she would support whatever decision Biden made about his political future at a time when the president was already insisting he would not leave the race. “It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” she said. Her remarks on MSNBC reportedly emboldened more Democrats to turn on Biden.
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According to The Washington Post, this is how the exchange with Jill Biden when it came to Pelosi went down:
“‘Like I said,’ Jill says now, seated in the Green Room of the White House on the first Sunday of January, ‘I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships.’
Her face, nearly pearlescent with lustrous foundation, betrays no particular emotion. She’s holding a china cup.
Tea. With honey and lemon.
‘It’s been on my mind a lot lately, and — ‘
Jill pauses.
‘We were friends for 50 years.’ She is using her teacher’s voice now. ‘It was disappointing.’”
After Harris lost the presidential election to Trump, Pelosi appeared to blame the outcome on Joe Biden during an interview with The New York Times.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said, adding, “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.”
Pelosi also said: “And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
There had been reports that Joe Biden was frustrated at Pelosi, among others, for pressing him to step aside. However, Biden insisted during an interview on ABC’s “The View” in September that his relationship with Pelosi was “fine.” Joe Biden also claimed — as he has done multiple times now — that he was “confident” that he would have beaten Trump in a rematch.
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