During an interview with The New York Times, Nancy Pelosi claimed other candidates could have taken part in a more competitive Democratic Party presidential primary had President Joe Biden “gotten out sooner.”.
The former House speaker said Biden’s swift endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, after dropping out of the race in July, “made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time.”
On Tuesday, Republican candidate Donald Trump convincingly won the 2024 presidential election with at least 301 Electoral College votes, according to The Associated Press (AP), 31 more than required for victory.
AP also has Trump ahead in Arizona, the only state it has yet to call, and on track to win the popular vote for the first time.
During an appearance on The Interview, a New York Times podcast, Pelosi said: “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.
“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.”
The former speaker continued: “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.”
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