Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has revealed that she does not believe President Joe Biden wrote his defiant letter demanding that Democrats rally behind him after his disastrous debate performance.
Pelosi said that the letter “didn’t sound like Joe.”
In that letter, Biden said he was “firmly committed” to running for re-election.
It came as panic spread through his party following Biden’s disastrous June debate with President Donald Trump.
Biden sent the letter to his Democrat colleagues on July 8 in an attempt to quell growing dissent within the party.
That same day, Biden called in to his favorite show “Morning Joe” and declared, “I’m not going anywhere.”
He also took a swipe at Democrat “elites” whom he accused of disenfranchising primary voters.
Biden’s argument has since been adopted by Republicans who say the president was overthrown in a “coup.”
Many see Pelosi and Barack Obama as the key players in the pressure campaign to get Biden to drop out.
Two days after Biden sent his letter, Pelosi went on “Morning Joe” and urged Biden to make a decision about his re-election.
The comment appeared odd at the time as Biden had made it clear he intended to keep running.
Her comments were seen as giving cover to other Democrats to question Biden.
In an interview with the New York Times, Pelosi made clear how little she thought of Biden’s initial decision to keep running.
“I didn’t accept the letter as anything but a letter,” Pelosi said.
“It didn’t sound like Joe Biden to me.
“It really didn’t,” she said.
Explaining her thought process through those three chaotic weeks, Pelosi said she was laser-focused on beating Trump.
“I wanted to see a campaign that could win,” Pelosi said.
“Because I had made a decision that I stayed in Congress to defeat what’s-his-name, because I think he is a danger to our country.”
Less than two weeks after Biden’s fiery letter, he called it quits in another letter, shared online.
Biden did not publicly address his decision to drop out until three days later, in an Oval Office speech that was vague about his motivations.
In a CBS interview that aired Sunday, Biden suggested that Pelosi had pushed him out to rescue the party’s down-ballot prospects.
“A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races,” he said.
“And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something] … and I thought it’d be a real distraction.”
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