While previous reports have said that Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) played a major role in upending then-President Joe Biden’s reelection bid, a new book reveals even more details about how far the former House Speaker went in attempting to keep then-Vice President Kamala Harris off the Democratic ticket.
Fox News host Jesse Watters, during his Tuesday show monologue, referenced the new book, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle For the White House,” by co-authors Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, in which the writers provided additional insight into Pelosi’s behind-the-scenes meddling.
Watters played a clip of Parnes, in which she described Pelosi’s reaction after watching Biden’s disastrous debate against then-former President Donald Trump: “She watches the debate, she’s unhappy and she thinks that she doesn’t want Democrats to rush into anything in that moment because she thinks if they rush him out then Kamala is going to be in and she does not think that Kamala Harris can win. She’s in a pickle in that moment.”
Watters then ran a clip of Allen, who said: “Her thinking was Biden had to get out and Harris was a disaster and what she was trying to do was get Biden out in time to the Democrats could choose someone other than Harris.”
“Kamala won’t be happy when she sees this, but nobody is more upset with Pelosi than Joe Biden,” Watters said. “According to the new book, ‘Fight,’ after the coup, ‘Biden was with his friends on Air Force One and started naming the people he would never forgive for their betrayal. The first name out of his mouth – Nancy Pelosi. Biden and Pelosi may never talk again.”
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He then went to another clip of Parnes, who said: “There is still a lot of friction between the two. She went on air on another network and basically twisted the knife, and he and his campaign aides were in shock. She essentially had her fingerprints all over this. The campaign a new it, he knew it, and I don’t think there’s going to be any love lost.”
Watters added: “But Pelosi was right, Biden did not have what it takes and neither did Kamala. She spent three months and $2 billion crashing and burning and the whole time she thought she was winning.”
He then played one last clip of Parnes, who told a CNN panel this week: “We know that they were shocked, completely surprised by the events that unfolded on election night. They thought they were going to win and, you know, when they were told that they were losing in the final hours and that they had lost, there was complete silence and shock and they were dumbfounded by what was happening.”
The co-authors also revealed that Pelosi secretly told Biden not to debate Trump at all.
In the days before Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, there was a behind-the-scenes disagreement between his team and Democratic Party members, which also included Pelosi.
Biden’s poor, stumbling performance made other Democrats lose faith in him, which ultimately caused him to drop out of the race.
“Joe Biden wanted to debate really badly,” Allen said. “He wanted this fight. He relished it. You’ve heard Biden before say things like ‘I want to meet him out behind the schoolyard.’ He really wanted to debate.”
He continued, “Pelosi went to him and tried to play to his ego, saying, ‘You shouldn’t lower yourself, you shouldn’t lower the presidency to Donald Trump.’ Even in her mind, she would say to him, ‘Don’t roll around in the mud.’ Remember, she hates Donald Trump…She kind of lays it on thick with Biden and says, ‘This is going to lower you’ because she knows that might appeal to him.”
Allen said Pelosi most likely did not believe that Biden could manage a debate against Trump.
“If she thought Biden was going to beat Donald Trump in a debate, she would have been telling him to debate,” Allen said.
