{"id":30560,"date":"2024-08-06T03:34:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T08:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30560"},"modified":"2024-08-06T03:35:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T08:35:07","slug":"pelosi-says-she-has-not-spoken-to-biden-since-he-dropped-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=30560","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi says she has not spoken to Biden since he dropped out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Former Speaker&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/nancy-pelosi\/\"><u>Nancy Pelosi\u2002<\/u><\/a>(D-Calif.) told CNN on Monday that she has not spoken to President Biden since he left the presidential race last month, signaling a potential falling out between the two Democratic veterans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Pelosi told CNN\u2019s Dana Bash that while she hasn\u2019t spoken to the president since he ended his campaign, she hoped to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re all busy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">When asked if her relationship with Biden is intact, she said, \u201cYou\u2019d have to ask him, but I hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Pelosi was one of the more influential voices who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4767454-nancy-pelosi-joe-biden-reconsider\/\"><u>privately urged Biden<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;to end his election campaign, The Hill reported,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4811312-nancy-pelosi-biden-campaign\/\"><u>which she has denied<\/u><\/a>. She told CNN that she did not push others to take that position, and never said it herself publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have hundreds of allies in the Congress of the United States. No, I had nothing to do with that. If you ask them, it\u2019s almost insulting to them because they\u2019re formidable figures in the Congress of the United States. They make their own judgment and their own statement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Despite her attempts to remove Biden from the ticket, Pelosi remained complimentary of the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLook, I have loved&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\/\"><u>Joe Biden,<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;respected him for over 40 years,\u201d she said. \u201cI think he has made one of the biggest contributions to our country in the shortest period of time of any president you can name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after Biden ended his campaign,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/biden-seething-at-pelosi-after-she-declines-to-stand-by-him-amid-calls-for-him-to-step-aside\/\"><u>CNN reported<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;that the president was \u201cseething\u201d with anger, much of it directed at Pelosi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4812850-nancy-pelosi-joe-biden-dropped-out\/\">Thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Speaker&nbsp;Nancy Pelosi\u2002(D-Calif.) told CNN on Monday that she has not spoken to President Biden since he left the presidential race last month, signaling a potential falling out between the two Democratic veterans. Pelosi told CNN\u2019s Dana Bash that while she hasn\u2019t spoken to the president since he ended his campaign, she hoped to. \u201cWe\u2019re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1169,8940,604,5989,24445],"class_list":["post-30560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-biden","tag-exit","tag-pelosi","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30562,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30560\/revisions\/30562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}