Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday that Democrats likely would have suffered more losses in the 2024 election if former President Joe Biden had remained in the race.
Democrats netted one seat in the House of Representatives by flipping nine Republican-held seats while Republicans flipped eight seats previously held by Democrats in the 2024 election. Pelosi appeared to dispute Biden’s claims that he would have won the election if he had remained in the race, indicating that Republicans likely would have seen more victories in the congressional races.
“Well all I know is that we won a seat in the House. We did not lose any seats. People were like ‘oh the Democrats lost,’ no, we did not. I think it would’ve been quite different with President Biden at the top of the ticket,” Pelosi said on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”
Democrats largely called on Biden to drop out of the 2024 race following his disastrous performance during the June 27 presidential debate against the then-Republican nominee Donald Trump. In compliance with his own party’s demands, Biden announced he was stepping down from the race in a July 21 statement and endorsed then-Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost the popular vote and all seven swing states to Trump.
Biden reportedly held the most anger toward Pelosi and expressed frustration toward former President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who had all reportedly worked behind-the-scenes to make him drop out of the race. Former first lady Jill Biden said in January that she found it “disappointing” that Pelosi did not stand by her husband’s side as Democrats collectively called on him to step down.
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