In his first sit-down interview since walking away from his re-election bid, U.S. President Joe Biden dropped Nancy Pelosi’s name while all but admitting that he was forced to bow out of the race.
Ultimately, Biden concluded that he would prove to be a “real distraction,” citing members of his own party who feared he would drag down other candidates. The Commander-in-Chief faced backlash from a slew of Democrats in the aftermath of his disastrous performance while debating Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in June. Biden told Robert Costa on CBS Sunday Morning that the presidential race “would have been down to the wire, but what happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races.
” He continued: “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...
? Why did someone?’ And I thought it’d be a real distraction.” Biden did not elaborate on any actual friction between himself and Pelosi during the interview, but the former speaker of the house is widely believed to be the mastermind behind Biden’s ouster — a claim she didn’t deny in recent interviews. President Biden details what led to his decision to drop out of the 2024 campaign, saying that "a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was gonna hurt them in the races.
" "I was concerned if I stayed in the ra.