‘We were friends for 50 years’: Bitter Jill Biden doesn’t hold back on Nancy Pelosi’s betrayal

In a new interview with The Washington Post, First Lady Jill Biden discussed the role her old friend had in strongarming her husband out of the 2024 presidential race.

While most Democrats believe removing President Joe Biden from the race was the only chance they stood at defeating President-elect Donald Trump, the first lady can’t help but have some bitter feelings about how everything went down. Following the abysmal debate performance that sent the party into a collective doom spiral, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi worked behind the scenes to ensure that Biden would step aside and a more competent candidate could take his place.

Spoiler alert: That didn’t work out.

But what did happen was the fracturing of a 50-year friendship between Pelosi and Jill Biden.

“Let’s just say I was disappointed with how it unfolded,” the first lady said of the president being pushed to the side. “I learned a lot about human nature.”

When asked more pointedly about Pelosi’s role in the ouster, Jill Biden didn’t hold back in expressing her true feelings.

“I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships. It’s been on my mind a lot lately,” she replied. “We were friends for 50 years. It was disappointing.”

Following Trump’s trouncing of Biden’s replacement, Pelosi didn’t hesitate to add insult to injury. Speaking to The New York Times, she suggested that Biden’s unwillingness to exit the race on his own terms likely prevented other, qualified candidates from being considered.

“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race. The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, there would be an open primary,” she said. “And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”

She further suggested that cultural issues had more do with the beating Democrats took at the ballot box, despite Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders stating the party focused too much on identity politics as Americans suffered from an ailing economy.

“Bernie Sanders has not won. With all due respect, and I have a great deal of respect for him, for what he stands for, but I don’t respect him saying that the Democratic Party has abandoned the working-class families,” she huffed.

“Guns, God and gays — that’s the way they say it,” she added. “Guns, that’s an issue; gays, that’s an issue, and now they’re making the trans issue such an important issue in their priorities; and in certain communities, what they call God, what we call a woman’s right to choose.”

Sierra Marlee

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