{"id":2319585,"date":"2024-08-05T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-says-she-didnt-ask-biden-to-step-down-but-to-provide-campaign-that-would-win-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T17:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T21:18:55","slug":"pelosi-says-she-didnt-ask-biden-to-step-down-but-to-provide-campaign-that-would-win-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-says-she-didnt-ask-biden-to-step-down-but-to-provide-campaign-that-would-win-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi says she didn\u2019t ask Biden to step down but to provide \u2018campaign that would win\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosi-says-she-didnt-ask-biden-to-step-down-but-to-provide-campaign-that-would-win-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2319585&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi clarified that she never asked\u200d President\u2064 Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. Instead, during a time of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-students-are-committing-suicide-at-an-alarming-rate-now-the-city-is-suing-its-schools\/\" title=\"San Francisco Students Are Committing Suicide At An Alarming Rate. Now The City Is Suing Its Schools.\">increasing pressure<\/a> on Biden following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-blames-age-for-poor-debate-performance-not-a-young-man-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Biden blames age for poor debate performance: \u2018Not a young man&#039; - Washington Examiner\">lackluster debate performance<\/a> \u2063in June, she urged him\u2064 to run a campaign that could successfully win the election. Pelosi addressed these concerns about Biden&#8217;s viability and its impact on down-ballot Democrats while appearing on \u2064ABC News\u2019s *Good Morning America*. She emphasized that her direct communication was only with Biden and dismissed claims that she was actively involved in discussions\u2064 regarding his potential departure from the\u200c race, noting that she did not return calls \u200dfrom others expressing their opinions on \u2064the matter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Pelosi says she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t ask Biden to step down but to provide &lsquo;campaign that would win&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1723716\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nancy-pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Nancy Pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-CA) claimed she never told President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> to drop out of the presidential race but rather told him to give Democrats &ldquo;a campaign that would win&rdquo; when pressure mounted for the president to drop out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3088684\/pelosi-coordinating-behind-scenes-dump-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Reports swirled<\/a> in the weeks following Biden&rsquo;s disastrous June presidential debate that Democratic leaders, including Pelosi, were concerned about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s ability to win in November and his effect on downballot Democrats. While on ABC News&rsquo;s<em> Good Morning America<\/em> on Monday, Pelosi denied she had called for him to step down and said she only spoke to Biden directly.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People said I was burning up the airwaves. No, I wasn&rsquo;t. The only person that I spoke to about this was the president,&rdquo; Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/news\/video\/nancy-pelosi-talks-new-book-art-power-112571706?email=467cb6399cb7df64551775e431052b43a775c749&amp;emaila=12a6d4d069cd56cfddaa391c24eb7042&amp;emailb=054528e7403871c79f668e49dd3c44b1ec00c7f611bf9388f76bb2324d6ca5f3&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=08.05.24%2012:30%20Report%20JB%20CMS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;Other people called me about what their views were about it, but I rarely even returned a call, much less initiated one.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi added that she wanted to see how the campaign could win but was struggling to foresee its path.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t asking him to step down. I was asking for a campaign that would win,&rdquo; Pelosi said. &ldquo;And I wasn&rsquo;t seeing that on the horizon.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She emphasized campaign decisions should be made in favor of &ldquo;winning&rdquo; and that the candidate is the &ldquo;most important decision&rdquo; in determining whether a campaign can win.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pelosi, in a clip shared by CBS News that aired this weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3109863\/pelosi-denies-making-phone-calls-organize-biden-ouster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"claimed\">claimed<\/a> she was not the leader of any pressure campaign, adding that she &ldquo;never called anybody.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While the former House speaker stepped out of Democratic congressional leadership at the end of the last Congress, Pelosi, 84, still remains a key power player in Democratic politics. She is seeking reelection to her San Francisco House seat in November, a seat she has held since 1987.<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1723716\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1723716\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelosi asserts she never urged Biden to resign, but rather requested a &#8220;winning campaign.&#8221; Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that she did not ask President Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race; instead, she encouraged him to present Democrats with &#8220;a campaign that would win&#8221; amid growing pressure for him to step aside. Following Biden&#8217;s poor performance in the June presidential debate, concerns arose among Democratic leaders, including Pelosi, regarding his chances of success in November and the potential impact on down-ballot candidates. During an appearance on ABC News&#8217; Good Morning America on Monday, Pelosi refuted claims that she had called for his resignation and clarified that her only communication was directly with Biden. She remarked, &#8220;People said I was burning up the airwaves. No, I wasn\u2019t. The only person I spoke to about this was the president,&#8221; adding that while others reached out to her with their opinions, she seldom returned calls or initiated conversations herself. Pelosi expressed her desire for a successful campaign but admitted difficulty in envisioning its direction: &#8220;I wasn\u2019t asking him to step down; I was asking for a campaign that would win&#8230;and I wasn\u2019t seeing that on the horizon.&#8221; She stressed that decisions regarding campaigns should prioritize winning and highlighted the candidate as a crucial factor in determining electoral success. In a clip shared by CBS News over the weekend, Pelosi insisted she did not lead any pressure efforts and stated she &#8220;never called anybody.&#8221; Although having stepped back from Democratic congressional leadership at the end of last Congress, Pelosi remains influential within Democratic politics at 84 years old and is running for reelection in her San Francisco House seat this November\u2014a position she&#8217;s held since 1987<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2319586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pelosi-biden-2024-election-july.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,35835,3928],"class_list":["post-2319585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-campaign-strategy","tag-pelosi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/pelosi-biden-2024-election-july.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}