Nancy Pelosi said Biden's late decision to withdraw from the presidential race hurt Democrats. She said an early exit could have given other candidates a chance in open primaries.

The slowness of Joe Biden with the withdrawal from the presidential election in 2024 cost the Democrats dearly. This was stated by former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in an interview with The New York Times, writes UNN.

If the president had stepped down earlier, there could have been other candidates in the race. It was expected that if the president stepped down, there would be an open primary

– Pelosi stated.

She said if Kamala Harris had succeeded in the open primary, she would have been stronger in the future.

But we don't know that. It didn't happen. We live with what did happen. And because the president immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, it really made it virtually impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had happened much earlier, things would have been different

– she said.

Pelosi's words come amid Democrats shifting blame to each other for Harris' defeat and Trump's second presidency.

The Times reported that Pelosi “went to great lengths to defend the Biden administration's legislative accomplishments, most of which were achieved during his first two years as House speaker.

Pelosi reportedly played a key role in convincing Biden to step aside. She told the New Yorker in August that she had “never been more impressed with his political activity.

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