'She needs to take a seat': Nancy Pelosi 'ticking off' House Democrats with 2024 postmortem

16 Nov 2024, 15:53 by https://www.facebook.com/17108852506 · AlterNet

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Elizabeth Preza
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Some Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives want Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to “take a seat” after the former House speaker suggested President Joe Biden should have “gotten out [of the presidential race] sooner.”

Pelosi made the comments last week in an interview with the New York Times, telling reporter Reid J. Epstein “there may have been other candidates in the race” if Biden dropped out before his damning debate with President-elect Donald Trump.

“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary,” Pelosi told the Times.

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“And as I say, Kamala [Harris] may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward,” Pelosi continued. “But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”

Now, some Democrats are grumbling about their former boss’s comments, with one senior Democratic lawmaker telling the outlet “she needs to take a seat.”

"Making scattershot comments is not just unhelpful, it's damaging,” the lawmaker told Axios.

According to the report, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus argued Pelosi is being disrespectful toward House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).

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"I understand that this is a difficult transition for her, not being the leader, but she is not," the Congressional Black Caucus member said. "She needs to understand what her new role is."

Read the full report at Axios.