Pelosi Grows Frustrated After Being Pressed on Why Biden Is ‘Waiting’ to Do More on Abortion Rights: ‘Come On’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pushed back after being pressed on why President Joe Biden did not do more for abortion rights “until now.” During Tuesday’s appearance on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” the…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pushed back after being pressed on why President Joe Biden did not do more for Abortion rights “until now.”
During Tuesday’s appearance on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” the host asked Pelosi, “Why did the president wait until now to make this major push for what he says will be a post-election call for a fast track on Abortion rights nationwide?”
Mitchell suggested Biden could have done more last Fall amid a leaked draft opinion showing the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade.
“The president has been a very strong supporter of a woman’s right to choose. In your preview, you said, why is he waiting until after the election instead of doing it now? We don’t have 60 votes in the Senate,” Pelosi replied.
Mitchell then asked, “You don’t think he could have pushed harder in the Senate?”
Pelosi pushed back, “You think we would have gotten 10 Republican votes? You think we would have gotten 10 Republican votes? Oh, come on.”
She continued, “With all due respect, the fact is we need to get two more Democratic votes to push back the filibuster and, therefore, be able with 51 votes to enshrine Roe v. Wade into the law.”