The former House Speaker also seemed to reject any analysis blaming Democrats for their election loss on a failure to win over working families.

Had Pelosi gotten her way, Harris would have had to duke it out with Democrats in an open primary. “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi shared with the New York Times.

Nancy Pelosi says Biden should have ‘gotten out’ of race sooner Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suggested in an interview that President Joe Biden’s late departure from the presidential race could have hampered Democrats’ ability to beat Donald Trump.