MSNBC host criticizes Nancy Pelosi over Joe Biden’s ‘public demise’

An MSNBC host who once worked as an aide to President Biden takes aim Thanks to Nancy Pelosi for engineering her “very public demise” In the final months of the 2024 election – paving the way for Vice President Kamala Harris Ultimately lost the race to Donald Trump.

Simone Sanders-Townsend, who served as a senior adviser to Biden as well as a spokesperson for Harris before joining the Comcast-owned cable outlet in 2022, Appeared on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” Sunday for a panel discussion about the election results.

When? Analyzing Where Democrats Went WrongSanders-Townsend said while taking the name of Pelosi Former House Speaker is eligible for this To share some of the blame for Harris’s defeat. his comments Was reported by Mediaite.

A fellow MSNBC panelist, Leah Daughtry, co-chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules Committee, said during the discussion: “With all due respect, a lot of people on Capitol Hill don’t have the answers.”

Sanders-Townsend then said: “If she’s not going to say it I’m going to say this – Nancy Pelosi, everybody talks about how the speaker emerges, you know, she’s very strategic, she She can count, she did all this when she was speaker in Congress, but my question is: where is your calculator now?”

He said the Democrats were “going to lose the Dagon House” – suggesting that Pelosi’s move to drop Biden from the race led to what happened.

“He played a role in presidential politics this cycle, and he helped plan the president’s public demise,” Sanders-Townsend said.

He praised his former boss, Biden, saying: “And thank God for Joe Biden, that he came out and, yes, endorsed his VP. ‘Because these people wanted an open primary!’

“Why?”

Sanders-Townsend cited a recent podcast interview in which Pelosi criticized Biden for not dropping out of the race sooner to allow the party to hold an open primary.

“If the President had dropped out early, there might have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi told the New York Times.

“The expectation was that, if the president withdrew, there would be an open primary.”

Pelosi was one of the senior Democrats who helped shore up Biden after his disastrous debate performance in late June, during which he struggled to form coherent sentences and had trouble with memory and recall.

According to Pelosi, Biden tied his party’s hands by immediately endorsing Harris rather than allowing the party to choose a nominee in the primary process.

“If (Biden’s withdrawal) had happened much earlier, it would have been different,” Pelosi said.

“We are living with what happened, and because President supported Kamala Harris Immediately, this made it almost impossible to actually be primary at that time. If it had happened much earlier, it would have been different.”

The post sought comment from Pelosi.