An MSNBC host who once served as an aide to President Biden blasted Nancy Pelosi for engineering his “very public death” in the final months of the 2024 election — paving the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to ultimately lose the race to Donald Trump. .
Symone Sanders-Townsend, who served as a senior adviser to Biden as well as a spokeswoman for Harris before joining the Comcast-owned cable network in 2022, appeared on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday for a discussion on panel about the consequences of the elections. .
When analyzing where Democrats went wrong, Sanders-Townsend singled out Pelosi, saying the former speaker of the House deserves to share some of the blame for Harris’ loss. Her comments were reported by Mediaite.
Fellow MSNBC panelist Leah Daughtry, co-chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules Committee, noted during the discussion: “With all due respect, a lot of people on Capitol Hill, they don’t have the answers.”
Sanders-Townsend then chimed in: “I’ll say it if she won’t say it — Nancy Pelosi, everybody talks about her as the speaker emerita, you know, she’s so strategic, she can count, she’s done it all these. when she was speaker of Congress, but my question is: Where is your calculator now?”
She added that Democrats were “about to lose the House of Daggone” — suggesting that Pelosi’s move to force Biden out of the race led to what happened.
“She played into presidential politics this cycle and helped orchestrate the public death of the president,” Sanders-Townsend said.
She praised her former boss, Biden, saying, “And thank God for Joe Biden, that he came out and, yes, endorsed his deputy. “Because these people wanted an open primary!”
“For what?”
Sanders-Townsend cited a recent podcast interview in which Pelosi criticized Biden for not dropping out of the race sooner to allow the party to hold an open election.
“If the president came out sooner, there might be other candidates in the race,” Pelosi told the New York Times.
“The expectation was that, if the president were to retire, there would be an open primary.”
Pelosi was one of the top Democrats who helped oust Biden after his disastrous debate performance in late June, during which he struggled to form coherent sentences and had memory and memory problems.
According to Pelosi, Biden tied his party’s hands by immediately endorsing Harris instead of allowing the party to select a candidate in a primary process.
“If [Biden’s stepping aside] had it been much earlier, it would have been different,” Pelosi said.
“We live with what happened and because the president immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, it really made it impossible for there to be an election at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
The Post has sought comment from Pelosi.
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