Nancy Pelosi Admits She Pressured Joe Biden to Drop Out

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has admitted her role in pressuring President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.

During an interview with The New Yorker, Pelosi shed light on reports that have emerged in past weeks, indicating that high-ranking Democrats were working together to persuade Biden to drop out of the race over fears that the president was unable to defeat former President Donald Trump in November.

Sources have indicated that such an effort was led by former President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N) and Pelosi.

Pelosi’s latest comments prove that there was, in fact, a coordinated effort among Democrats to remove Biden from the ticket.

It appears that the effort was launched shortly after Biden’s poor debate performance against Trump in June.

The New York Post reported that Obama, Pelosi and other Democrats had threatened to remove Biden through the 25th Amendment if he refused to step aside.

On Thursday, Pelosi became the first high-ranking politician to confirm as such.

The California congresswoman said that although she holds high praise for the president, she wanted him to make a decision that would benefit the Democratic Party.

“I love him so much,” Pelosi said.

“I think he’s been a really fantastic president of the United States. So I really wanted him to make a decision of a better campaign,” she added.

“Because they were not facing the fact of what was happening,” she continued. “Just a little background. I’ve never been that impressed with his political operation.”

Pelosi was asked to clarify if her comments were about Biden’s political operation.

In response, she said, “Yeah, I’m not. I mean, I just haven’t. They won the White House, bravo.”

“But so my concern was this ain’t happening and we have to make a decision for this to happen and the president has to make the decision for that to happen. Let me just say, I won’t say necessarily I knew what I was doing at that time. I knew what I was doing in the whole thing, not just that ship,” Pelosi said.

The interviewer then asked Pelosi to reveal what her underlying plan was.

“That Donald Trump would never set foot in the White House again,” the California Democrat replied.

Trending Politics noted that the revelation comes as details continue to circulate over the “coup,” as some are referring to it, against Biden.

Obama, Pelosi and Schumer reportedly favored holding a “mini primary” at the Democratic National Convention, at which point the conference would decide on a new nominee.

However, Biden’s decision to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris led the plan to backfire, with Obama angered by it.

“Obama knows she’s just incompetent — the border czar who never visited the border, saying that all migrants should have health insurance. She cannot navigate the landmines that are ahead of her,” a source told the New York Post.