In his first interview since becoming Vice President Kamala Harris He lost to the GOP president-elect. Donald TrumpRepresentative. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declined any analysis. He blamed the Democratic Party for turning away from the working class and sharing his simple thoughts.

While she disagreed that her party ran a poor campaign, the former House Speaker also suggested that Harris would have proven herself more thoroughly in an open primary that would have occurred if she had been President. Joe Biden He left earlier.

“The expectation was that if the president stepped aside, there would be an open primary.” Pelosi told the New York Times in an interview on Saturday:He added that Harris “will be successful in this and will be stronger going forward.”

“But we don’t know that,” he continued. “That didn’t happen. We are experiencing what happened. And because the president Quickly endorsed Kamala HarrisThis actually made it nearly impossible to have a primary at that time. “If it had happened much earlier it would have been different.”

Pelosi He called for Biden in 2022 to run for re-election. But earlier this year, amid growing concerns about his cognitive abilities, he said in July: “This is in the hands of the president.” whether he did it or not. Biden dropped out of school after just a few daysIt gave Harris about 100 days to campaign.

“The truth is, he did a great job despite the time constraints he had,” Pelosi told the Times.

“If the president had left earlier, there might have been other candidates in the race,” he continued. “I think Kamala would still have won, but she could have been stronger by making her case public sooner.”

But when asked if she wanted Biden to leave sooner, Pelosi simply said, “No.” He added that he “had no reason to say anything to the president sooner” about concerns about his age.

The Times noted that Trump “seems unwilling or unable” to accept the idea that his victory was a rebuke to Harris’ party as a whole and that she ultimately ran a traditional campaign focused on interviews. by inheritance media sales points And a message of “joy”.

Trump ran racist offer “bloodthirsty” focused immigrants “Bringing bad genes” to the country. But as You. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) noted that Trump at least pretended to be concerned about pocketbook issues like inflation — whereas Democrats said: “They abandoned working-class people.”

Pelosi strongly opposes election involving Trump The public vote will probably get bored. In addition to the Electoral College, he said it was a “blatant rejection of the Democratic Party” and that he “felt some level of discomfort” with people arguing that it left working-class voters behind.

“No, we didn’t,” Pelosi told the Times. “This is who we are.”

“Go ask Bernie Sanders,” he said when asked why voters don’t see Democrats as what Pelosi calls “America’s kitchen table, working-class party.”

“With all due respect, and I have great respect for him for what he represents, I don’t respect the fact that he says the Democratic Party is abandoning working-class families,” Pelosi added. “That’s where we are.”

finger pointing among frustrated Democrats continues.

CORRECTION: The headline of this report has been updated to correct a quote.

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