“The View” co-host Ana Navarro criticized former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Monday for blaming the Democratic Party’s presidential election loss on President Joe Biden’s late exit from the 2024 race.
Pelosi suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris or another candidate would have been “stronger” and better equipped to make their case to the American public if Biden had dropped out of the race sooner during a Thursday interview with The New York Times. Navarro accused Pelosi of being “nasty” and “unseemly” for allegedly shifting blame from herself and placing it on Biden.
“[Pelosi] must’ve been absent the day in kindergarten where they did the lesson, if you have nothing good to say, don’t say anything at all,” Navarro said. “I mean, why Nancy? Why? I find this so unproductive, so nasty, so unnecessary. It’s like, she wants to make sure that people know it wasn’t her. She has no blame in this, ‘I said Biden should’ve gotten out earlier, I said there should’ve been a primary. Don’t blame me,’” Nevarro paraphrased. “I think it’s really unseemly and you know, frankly, it’s done with. Right. These criticisms against Biden, look, we will never know if the result would’ve been different if Biden stepped off earlier, we will never know if the results would’ve been different if he had stayed in, we will never know if the results would’ve been different if there had been an open primary. What we do know is that Biden is there for the next two-and-a-half months.”
During the interview, Pelosi said the party would have fared better if a primary had been held ahead of time.
“The fact is [Harris] did a great job with the time constraint that she had. Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said. “Kamala, I think, still would have won, but she may have been stronger, having taken her case to the public sooner … The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary. 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.”
Co-host Sunny Hostin expressed opposition against the alleged “blame game” within the Democratic Party, arguing the party’s discussion should be about the reason Republicans backed a “convicted felon.”
“What I don’t like is this finger pointing blame game that’s going on in the Democratic Party,” Hostin said. “And I’ve said this before, why isn’t the conversation about how Republicans can get behind a convicted felon? Why Republicans are behind this crass, I don’t even have the words for it, you know, this twice impeached former president. I think when Republicans lost in 2020, that kind of introspection didn’t occur. In fact, they refused to concede the election, they were election deniers in large part and then doubled down on this grievance politics, wedge issues, and it turned out just fine for them, it turned out just fine because they re-elected this person. So to me, I just feel like the Democrats don’t need to do this — attack.”
Pelosi reportedly planned to increase her efforts to convince Biden to drop out of the 2024 race following his infamously disastrous performance at the June 27 presidential debate on CNN. The former House Speaker denied rumors that she spearheaded the Democrats’ push to oust Biden from the top of the ticket during an Aug. 6 interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, before admitting that she had not spoken to the president since his decision to drop out on July 21.
Pelosi, who staunchly supported Biden, did not give a direct answer when “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist asked her if she supports Biden dropping her during a July 10 interview, leading her to say it is the president’s decision.
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