Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told President Joe Biden that polls show he will lose his electoral rematch against Donald Trump in November and that he might sink the Democrats’ ability to win the House if he stays in the race, according to a report.
The brutally frank exchange led to Biden getting defensive about the polls, sources told CNN, with one source claiming that Biden told Pelosi he’d seen polling showing that he does have a path to victory. News of the private conversation comes on the heels of reports that both Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries have separately urged Biden to drop out, while Pelosi ally Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Wednesday became the most high-profile Democrat lawmaker to publicly call on Biden to abandon his re-election campaign.
It’s unclear precisely when Pelosi’s conversation with Biden took place, though one source told CNN it was in the last week. None of the people familiar with the exchange who spoke to the network said whether Pelosi told Biden during their conversation that he should drop out.
