Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, member of the Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi, in the context of the failure of the Democrats in the elections, said that the current President of the United States, Joe Biden, should have left the race even earlier; this would have given the party more It’s time to hold open primaries.
Biden after his failure in the debate with the Republican presidential candidate donald trump For almost a month he refused to abandon the race despite criticism from his party colleagues. Media reported at the time that party powerhouse Pelosi allegedly played a key role in forcing him out of the race. As a result, Biden withdrew from the race on July 21 and immediately endorsed his vice president as a replacement. Kamala Harris.
“I think Kamala could be successful in this (in the primaries)… But we don’t know. This did not happen. We live with what happened. And because the president immediately endorsed Kamala Harris, it really made it almost impossible to hold a primary at that time. “If this had happened much earlier, everything would have been different.” Pelosi said in an interview with the New York Times podcast.
Democrats abandoned open primary voting and conducted electronic voting on a closed platform on August 5. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 22, organizers held a formal “ceremonial vote” that ultimately endorsed Harris as the presidential candidate.
Earlier this week, Pelosi, 84, was reelected to Congress from California. In his opinion, the reason for the Democrats’ defeat in the November 5 elections was rather cultural differences, specifically support for LGBT people.*+* community (banned in Russia as extremist) by Democrats, a position on restricting the right to own weapons and attempts to legislate the right to abortion. None of this resonates with the working class, Pelosi said.
*Extremist organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.
