Pelosi Denies Knowledge of Biden’s Alleged Decline; Calls for Action by Those Aware
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated she was unaware of any alleged decline in former President Joe Biden. She emphasized that individuals who knew about it should have taken action. Pelosi repeatedly told Politico’s Jonathan Martin, “I didn’t know, but I do think that those who did know should have acted upon that information, whatever that means.” She mentioned conflicting claims between staff and family, suggesting they should have acted sooner.
The pair had previous tensions regarding the 2024 race. Pelosi noted their conversations in March, but denied influencing Biden to leave the race. In her words, “I only said to President Biden, ‘I’ve come to question the polling that you have and how your campaign is being conducted.'” She clarified, “I didn’t ask him not to run or anything like that. This is what I asked. ‘I would hope that we could have some other pollsters come in and sit with your pollster and discuss what they hear out there.'”
“I think the public would like to hear that you’ve had a testing that demonstrates that you can serve the next [term],” she added.
When Martin questioned Biden’s response to her, Pelosi recounted, “He responded. We were prayerful, you know, Catholic. We’re prayerful. We had our rosaries and all that. And we had a lovely meeting. It was only the two of us, except when he put somebody on the phone to talk about the polls. So, whatever people said about it there, didn’t come from me, or maybe it came from somebody in his staff, but none of his staff was really in the room. He said, ‘I get tested every day in what I’m doing and the rest of that.’ I said, ‘I think people want to see something more in that regard.’”
Fox News political analyst Guy Benson criticized Pelosi’s situation as “non-credible gaslighting.” He remarked, “Everyone with eyes and ears clocked the former president’s clear decline. The gaslighting denials came from partisan actors who were invested in a political outcome, very much including Pelosi. Once their gaslighting efforts died on that debate stage, they feigned shock at the very reality they’d cynically attacked others for noticing, very much including Pelosi. Because their desired outcome abruptly required turning on Biden, the knives came out. And the sharpest knife may have belonged to Pelosi. She can try to deny this, but it’s just more non-credible gaslighting.”
On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” in July 2024, after Biden assured his continuation in the race, Pelosi suggested Biden was still deciding. “It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We are all encouraging him to make that decision, because time is running short,” she said.
President Biden’s office did not provide a comment to Fox News Digital regarding the situation.