Pelosi blames Biden for losing as finger pointing intensifies

Former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said Democrats mightiness person fared amended successful Tuesday's predetermination if President Joe Biden had exited the contention sooner.

Pelosi - 1 of the astir almighty politicians successful Washington - told the New York Times that "had the president gotten retired sooner, determination whitethorn person been different candidates successful the race".

Her remarks are the latest digit pointing from Democrats aft the enactment mislaid clasp of the White House and perchance some chambers of Congress connected Tuesday.

Pelosi is wide reported to person led the Democrats’ propulsion to oust Biden, who ended up leaving the contention astatine the extremity of July aft weeks of unit pursuing a mediocre statement show against Donald Trump.

As Biden ended his campaign, helium rapidly endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris to instrumentality his place.

Pelosi told the New York Times: "The anticipation was that, if the president were to measurement aside, that determination would beryllium an unfastened primary."

An unfastened superior would person progressive a fig of Democratic candidates competing to beryllium elected by enactment members to win Biden arsenic their White House nominee.

Pelosi argued that Harris would person done good successful specified a superior process and it would person made her "stronger going forward".

"But we don’t cognize that. That didn’t happen. We unrecorded with what happened," the California congresswoman, who was re-elected to her 20th word successful the House connected Tuesday, said.

"And due to the fact that the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that truly made it astir intolerable to person a superior astatine that time. If it had been overmuch earlier, it would person been different."

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Speaking to governmental quality outlet Politico, Harris aides besides laid the blasted astatine Biden’s feet and said helium should person bowed retired sooner.

“We ran the champion run we could, considering Joe Biden was president,” said 1 unnamed aide. “Joe Biden is the singular crushed Kamala Harris and Democrats mislaid tonight.”

However, a erstwhile Biden adjutant told Axios, different governmental quality outlet, that Harris was making excuses.

"How did you walk $1 cardinal and not win?” said the aide, adding an expletive.

An unnamed erstwhile Biden adjutant told Politico this week that erstwhile President Barack Obama’s advisers were to blasted due to the fact that they “publicly encouraged Democratic infighting to propulsion Joe Biden out, didn’t adjacent privation Kamala Harris arsenic the nominee”.

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, a Democrat, blamed the predetermination nonaccomplishment connected those who plotted to oust Biden.

“For those that decided and moved to interruption Biden, and past you got the predetermination that you wanted, it’s due to ain the result and fallout,” helium told governmental outlet Semafor successful an interview.

Congressman Tom Suozzi, New York Democratic congressman, said the predetermination nonaccomplishment was partially owed to the party's absorption connected "being politically correct".

He said the enactment had struggled to counteract Republican onslaught lines connected "anarchy connected assemblage campuses, defund the police, biologic boys playing successful girls' sports, and a wide onslaught connected accepted values".

Ritchie Torres, different New York Democratic congressman, posted connected X, formerly Twitter, blaming "the acold left”.

He said radicals wrong the enactment had “managed to alienate historical numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities similar ‘Defund the Police’ oregon ‘From the River to the Sea’ oregon ‘Latinx’”.

Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who ran for president arsenic a Democrat successful 2016 and 2020, accused the enactment successful a lengthy connection of abandoning moving people.

"While the Democratic enactment defends the presumption quo, the American radical are aggravated and privation change," helium wrote. "And they’re right."

He argued Democrats astir apt wouldn't larn from the predetermination outcome.

But Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison responded connected X that Sanders' accusation was "straight up BS", saying Biden was "the most-pro idiosyncratic President of my beingness time".