‘Twist Of The Knife’: Chuck Todd Says Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t ‘Want To Humiliate’ Biden ‘While NATO’s In Town’

NBC’s Chuck Todd said Wednesday that Democratic California Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s refusal to take a stance on President Joe Biden’s candidacy may be an effort to delay embarrassing him until the NATO summit concludes.

Pelosi, on Wednesday morning, avoided endorsing Biden and advised everyone to hold their tongue about what they want him to do until after the summit, which ends on Thursday. Todd, on “Chris Jansing Reports,” said Pelosi’s remarks must be painful to Biden, adding that she may just be shielding the president from humiliation during the summit by not speaking out against him.

Biden is hosting the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., as 32 allies convene to decide how to persist in safeguarding “their one billion citizens as the world faces the most dangerous security environment since the Cold War,” particularly the Russia-Ukraine conflict, according to its website.

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“I find it fascinating that nobody has taken Joe Biden’s answer earlier this week that he’s staying in the race as definitive. Right? He put out a statement that it’s definitive,” Todd said. “The campaign says, ‘well, he’s already answered this question.’ Former Speaker Pelosi was even reminded of this in the interview this morning with Jonathan, and she just simply plowed forward, right, and said, ‘well, the decision is up to him.’”