Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has blamed President Joe Biden for the Democrats loss in the Presidential elections.
Pelosi who was recently re-elected for a 20th term in Congress said Democrats might have fared better in Tuesday’s election if Biden had exited the race sooner to give room for a party primary.
Pelosi is widely reported to have led the Democrats’ push to oust Biden, who ended up leaving the race at the end of July after weeks of pressure following a poor debate performance against Donald Trump.
She said; “the anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.”
Pelosi argued that Harris would have done well in such a primary process and it would have made her “stronger going forward”.
However, a former Biden aide told Axios, another political news outlet, that Harris was making excuses.
“How did you spend $1 billion and not win?” said the aide, adding an expletive.
