Pelosi has awkward response when asked about relationship with Biden (2024)

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Nancy Pelosi said 'you'd have to ask' Joe Bidenabout the state of their relationship after the former speaker of the house admitted she hasn't spoken to him since he ended his re-election campaign.

The two long-time Democrat Party leaders have been allies in Washington for decades but some have alleged that Pelosi was part of the effort to push the 81-year-old Biden out of the race.

Pelosi, appearing on CNN as part of a media tour to promote her new memoir, didn't seem to dissuade those rumors when questioned about Biden Monday.

She was asked by Dana Bash: 'Have you spoken to President Biden since he dropped out?'

'No,' the 84-year-old Pelosi - whose official title is now Speaker Emarata after stepping down as speaker in 2023 - responded.

Bash then questioned: 'Is everything ok with your relationship?'

'You'd have to ask him,' remarked Pelosi.

Earlier Monday, Pelosirevealed the brutal reason she wanted Bidento exit the presidential race.

'I was asking for a campaign that would win. And I wasn't seeing that on the horizon,' she told ABC's Good Morning America on Monday.

But she denied reports that she led a pressure campaign to push Biden to exit the race.

'The only person I spoke to about this was the president. Other people called me about what their views were about it, but I rarely even returned a call, much less initiated one,' she said.

The former speaker has spent much of her interviews praising Biden for exiting the race. She even told CBS that he belonged on Mount Rushmore.

There are reports Biden is angry at her for her role in his ouster. Pelosi was working behind-the-scenes to try and calm panicked Democrats after Biden's first debate performance, where he stared into space and struggled to answer questions.

Democrats were worried that, with Biden at the top of the ticket, they would lose the House, Senate, and White House.

Pelosi was said to be relaying those messages to the White House.

Publicly she always said she trusted Biden would make the right decision, a message she echoed in Monday's interview.

'I have the greatest respect for the president,' she told GMA. 'I think he will be one of the most consequential presidents in our country. I want him, his legacy, to be recognized, preserved.'

'I wasn't asking him to step down. I was asking for a campaign that would win. And I wasn't seeing that on the horizon,' she said.

She also explained what it takes to have a winning campaign: 'Winning an election is a decision.

'You make a decision to win and make every decision in favor of winning, in terms of how you mobilize at the grassroots level and own the ground to get out the vote.

'How you have a message that is bold and progressive, but not menacing to the public.

'And how you have the money to do that, to attract that largely from small donors. And then the most important decision is the candidate.'

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