As she prepares to leave the White House, First Lady Jill Biden reflected on her relationships during an interview with The Washington Postand revealed that she was disappointed with former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who played a large role in the president’s exit from the 2024 race.
“It’s been on my mind a lot lately and—” said the first lady. “We were friends 50 years. It was disappointing,” she said he told the Post in an article published Wednesday.
Pelosi joined the co-hosts “Morning Joe” in July, after the president’s disastrous debate performance, and said, “It’s up to the president to decide whether he’s going to run,” despite Biden’s repeated assurances that he would stay in the race.
“Let’s just say I was disappointed with how it went,” the first lady said.
During an interview, First Lady Jill Biden said she was disappointed with Nancy Pelosi for the role she played in President Biden dropping out of the race. (Left: (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images), Right: Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Pelosi was seen as a major force behind the Democratic campaign to pressure the president to drop out of the race — and complained after Vice President Kamala Harris’ defeat of President-elect Donald Trump that Biden should have dropped out earlier.
Amid speculation that Biden would drop out after the June debate, despite saying he would not, the Associated Press reported that leaders within the Democratic Party such as former President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Pelosi allegedly worked behind the scenes to encourage Biden to drop out out of concern that he would not defeat Trump.
Jill Biden told the Washington Post that she believes her husband could have served four more years.
“I mean, today, I think he has a full schedule. He started early with interviews and briefings, and he just keeps going,” she said.
President Biden recently told USA Today that he wasn’t sure if he could serve another term. (Susan Walsh/AP)
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Biden said USA Today last week that he wasn’t sure if he could serve another term.
“Who the hell knows? So far so good. But who knows what I’ll be when I’m 86?” he said.
Jill Biden also spoke to The Washington Post about the president’s decision to pardon Hunter.
“Joe really struggled with that decision,” the first lady said. “I mean, we started — he started at the point where he said he wasn’t going to pardon Hunter. But then I think things changed. Circumstances changed and it became very clear and obvious that the Republicans weren’t going to stop.”
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Pelosi’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
