California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the silent operator who clutched the reigns of the House and steered it for nearly a decade, broke her silence on pushing President Joe Biden to suspend his re-election campaign in a new interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick published Thursday.
Pelosi told the New Yorker she had “never been that impressed with (Biden’s) political operation” but earlier in the day on that fateful June 27, Pelosi admitted she was the one assuaging fears about Biden’s competence.
“When I was with the members, they were, like, ‘Oh, how’s it going to be?’ ‘Trump will be so awful,’ I said. ‘Don’t worry about it. The Joe Biden of the State of the Union is going to show up. It’s going to be great,’” Pelosi said. “I just didn’t want him to be seen with that guy. And then that happened, and I think everybody was stunned. It was stunning.”
