Nancy Pelosi reveals she’s nonetheless had no contact with Biden after exit from race

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Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi revealed in an interview launched Saturday that she and former President Joe Biden nonetheless haven't spoken after she performed a task in encouraging him to drop out of the 2024 election.

USA In the present day's Susan Web page requested Pelosi about her involvement in Biden’s choice to exit the race throughout an interview on "The Excerpt" podcast and whether or not she has spoken to the previous president since.

"No, however I wish to simply recharacterize what you mentioned. My conversations with the president had been extra about let's ensure we're understanding what the polls say, and there are specific attitudes that the general public had, had they been considered. If they'd sat down with extra pollsters, it may need come to a spot the place we mentioned, ‘That is it, the president ought to go,’ however they simply determined that their polls had been proper and that was that. So I did not go in there to say to the president, 'You should not run.' I mentioned, ‘We have got to match polls as a result of we have now totally different numbers,'" Pelosi mentioned.

The previous Home Speaker mentioned she was upset by the truth that they hadn't spoken, although she added she revered Biden’s choice.

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Former President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Speaker of the Home Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., throughout a ceremony within the East Room of the White Home on Could 3, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Pictures)

"Properly, I am saddened by it as a result of I like him and respect him, however I respect his choice in that regard," Pelosi mentioned.

Pelosi joined MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in July 2024 following the previous president's disastrous debate efficiency and mentioned, "It’s as much as the president to resolve if he's going to run," suggesting that Biden was nonetheless weighing his choices regardless of insisting on the time he would stay within the race.

Stories on the time mentioned Pelosi and different Democratic leaders had been working behind the scenes to influence Biden to drop out, as Pelosi was reportedly convinced he would lose to then-President Donald Trump.

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Former President Joe Biden speaks about overseas coverage throughout a speech on the State Division in Washington on Jan. 13. (AP/Susan Walsh)

After Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris within the election, former first woman Jill Biden said she was disappointed in Pelosi.

"It’s been on my thoughts lots currently," she advised The Washington Publish in a January interview. "We had been associates for 50 years . It was disappointing."

"Let’s simply say I used to be disenchanted with the way it unfolded," the previous first woman added.

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Former President Joe Biden and former First Woman Jill Biden stroll off the stage after a marketing campaign occasion in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 28, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)

Pelosi advised Web page that Joe Biden made a "beautiful" assertion when she introduced her plans to retire from Congress on the finish of her present time period.

Biden put out an announcement reacting to Pelosi's choice final month.

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"I usually mentioned Nancy Pelosi was the very best Speaker of the Home in American historical past — it’s why I awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Once I was President, we labored collectively to develop our economic system, create tens of millions of jobs, and make historic investments in our nation’s future. She has devoted a lot of her life to this nation, and America will all the time be grateful. Jill and I want Nancy and Paul all the very best," he wrote on X.