Looks like the hits just won’t stop coming for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Especially with regards to former President Joe Biden.
Indeed, The New York Post reports that veteran reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes have now exposed “a secret conflict between Biden’s team and members of the Democratic Party in the lead-up to him dropping out of the 2024 presidential race” in their forthcoming book – Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.
Per these reporters, Pelosi, “reportedly lobbied Biden not to participate in the infamous debate against Trump.”
“Joe Biden wanted to debate really badly. He wanted this fight. He relished it. You’ve heard Biden before say things like ‘I want to meet him out behind the schoolyard.’ He really wanted to debate,” Allen recalls.
A deeply misguided desire, to be sure, given how disastrous the debate was.
“Pelosi went to him and tried to play to his ego, saying, ‘You shouldn’t lower yourself, you shouldn’t lower the presidency to Donald Trump.’ Even in her mind, she would say to him, ‘Don’t roll around in the mud.’ Remember, she hates Donald Trump … She kind of lays it on thick with Biden and says, ‘This is going to lower you’ because she knows that might appeal to him,” Allen continued.
Well, she apparently did not appeal to him after all.
And she certainly didn’t after forcing him out of the race. In fact, it would appear that she just might have torpedoed their lifelong friendship for good.
“If she thought Biden was going to beat Donald Trump in a debate, she would have been telling him to debate,” Allen added.
Well, no kidding. She is one of the more skilled political animals of her time, after all.
On her part, Parnes declared that the Biden campaign was “stuck between a rock and a hard place” after the first debate.
Perhaps one of the kinder ways of putting it.
Most tellingly, Allen and Parnes have even further credibility when considering that similar claims have been put forth in other books.
Jonathan Alter expressed as much in his own book – American Reckoning: Inside Trump’s Trial – and My Own.
“The key figure in getting Biden to change his mind was Pelosi, who drew on their forty-year friendship. At first, she thought Biden could survive what he described as his ‘bad night.’ But Pelosi is an institutionalist; she loves the House, and her nightmare of not regaining control of that chamber (when Democrats were so close to winning it back) seemed to be coming true,” Alter proclaimed.
Alas, the Democrats did not “win” the House back after all … though they surely made a valiant effort to do so.
Author: Jane Jones
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