Nancy Pelosi is critical of Joe Biden after the election defeat – news Norway – Overview of news from various parts of the country

Nancy Pelosi has previously been leader of the House of Representatives, and has for many years been a central figure in the Democratic Party. She herself was re-elected to the House of Representatives in this year’s election, where she represents San Francisco in California. This will be her 20th term. In an interview with the New York Times, she is critical of incumbent President Joe Biden not resigning earlier than he did. – Had the president withdrawn from the election campaign earlier, other candidates could have entered the race, says Pelosi in the interview. Nancy Pelosi receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Joe Biden. The picture was taken in May this year. Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP/NTB The newspaper has so far only published parts of the interview. The rest will be published in podcast form on Saturday. The work behind the scenes Pelosi suggests that the presidential election could have ended better for the Democrats if Biden had resigned earlier. After Biden performed poorly in a debate against Donald Trump in June, many became skeptical about whether he actually managed to win the election and complete a second term as president. According to the New York Times, Pelosi worked behind the scenes to get Biden to resign, which he initially refused to do. Nancy Pelosi waves to the audience on stage during the Democratic National Convention in August this year. Photo: Paul Sancya / AP/NTB When he finally resigned in July, Pelosi believed, according to the newspaper, that the question of who would take over was going to be more open than it turned out to be. She had expected an open nomination process to find the new candidate, she says in the interview. – Must live with what has happened Instead, this almost automatically became Kamala Harris, when Biden publicly supported her as his heir almost immediately after the announcement that he was retiring. – Because the president pointed to Kamala Harris immediately, it became almost impossible to have a nomination election. Had it happened much earlier, it would have been different, says Pelosi. She believes that Harris would have done well in an open nomination process, running stronger than she did in the election. – But we don’t know that. It didn’t happen. We have to live with what has happened, says Pelosi. Published 09.11.2024, at 02.44 Updated 09.11.2024, at 02.59



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