LOS ANGELES.–Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 84, showed her age, giving a feeble interview to the New York Times blaming 81-year-old President Joe Biden for not bowing out of the 2024 race earlier. When Biden quit July 21, she gave 60-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris 107 days to launch a coherent election campaign, something Pelosi hinted wasn’t enough time. “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi told the NY Times, hoping, had Biden dropped out sooner, Democrats could have held an open primary, though Pelosi said she thinks Kamala would have still been picked. All water under the bridge now, there’s no way of telling whether more time would have hurt or helped Kamala’s campaign for president. “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary,” Pelosi said.
Engaging in pure conjecture, Pelosi thinks if voters were given more time to get to know Pelosi, things would have been much different. Actually, polls show the more voters got to know Kamala the more then didn’t like her. Most voters were frustrated that the Democrat Party nominee refused to give live press interviews, preferring a a more cautious approach where she could stick to her script. So, if Kamala wanted to speak from the heart, her chief strategist David Plouffe had other ideas. Plouffe wanted Kamala to stick to only Democrat talking points, many of which were crafted by Pelosi, calling trump “unhinged” and “unfit.” Pelosi back in 2020 was dealing with two Trump impeachments, both of which failed to convict in the U.S. Senate. Pelosi couldn’t get her way accusing Trump of trying to coerce 46-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up dirt on the Bidens in 2020.
Pelosi often referred to Trump as “unhinged” when she fought him tooth-and-nail to get funding for his border wall, something she and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) opposed to defy Trump. Once the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots occurred, Pelosi blamed Trump again, claiming he planned-and-orchestrated the riots. When the Senate acquitted Trump Feb. 13, 2021, Pelosi continued to go after Trump forming the Jan. 6 House Select Committee where she and her like-minded colleagues continued to go after Trump. Almost two years into their investigation, Pelosi transmitted her committee findings to the Justice Department in 2022. Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland took the committee’s blatantly partisan witch hunt and appointed 55-year-old Special Counsel Jack Smith who eventually charged Trump with obstruction of the 2020 election. Meanwhile, Trump faced other bogus Democrat charges.
Pelosi still likes to stay in the headlines, showing a kind of cosmic vanity for an 85-year-old politician well-beyond her prime. Pelosi and other partisan Democrats did everything possible to stop Trump from running in 2024. Everything Democrats did boomeranged, eventually resulting in Trump’s landslide victory Nov. 5. Pelosi and Democrats are in a state of shock, now blaming 81-year-old President Joe Biden for not exiting the 2024 earlier. But Pelosi is wrong to think things would have played out differently. Voters were disgusted with Democrats’ attempt to prevent Trump from running in 2024. When Trump was convicted in a Mahattan kangaroo court of 34 felonies May 30, Pelosi and the press were convinced Trump’s 2024 campaign was ruined. Democrats and the press didn’t know the kind of backlash with voters about to occur.
Pelosi can’t admit that her phony witch hunt against Trump is what killed it for Democrats in 2024, propelling Trump to his landslide victory. Voters saw through the Department of Justice political prosecution of Trump, seeking to make big changes in 2024. Pelosi won’t admit that if anyone killed it in the Democrat Party is was her extreme partisanship and vendetta against Trump. Voters got saw through all the Democrat and press gaslighting about Trump. Kamala ran her campaign off David Plouffe’s old, worn out talking points. Once Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pa. July 13, Trump’s campaign took off like a rocket. No one knew exactly how Trump’s near death in Pennsylvania helped his campaign. Democrats and Pelosi thought after the Aug. 24 Democrat National Convention, Kamala was on her way to a landslide victory Nov. 5.
Pelosi is doing everything possible to blame Biden when she knows the biggest reason Democrats lost in a landslide was because of her and the fake news. Voters woke up and figured out that Kamala, who had a 36% approval rating while Vice President, was a Manchurian candidate, completely fabricated by Democrat strategists but only able to stick to a tight script. Every time Kamala deviated from the script, she hurt her campaign. She ran on attacking Trump, calling him a “fascist” at a Oct. 23 CNN town hall with Anderson Coopers. After calling Trump “unhinged” and “unfit” for distorted comments about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), voters realized that Kamala had nothing to say about fixing the economy or foreign policy. She ran a Pelosi-like campaign trading insults with Trump but offered voters nothing in the way of her future plans for the country.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma
