We haven’t heard a whole lot from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) since her calculated plan to force President Joe Biden out of the presidential race bore fruit in late July with Biden ceding the nomination to his vice president, Kamala Harris.
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But when we have, it’s been the usual spew of fruit cakery, as we saw during her late August appearance on Bill Maher’s program, where Pelosi had the nerve to invoke Ronald Reagan’s legacy while trying to defend California’s dangerous open borders priorities and policies.
Then there was the “interview” she did with late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert, where she tried to straddle the fence on the Israel-Hamas war.
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On Tuesday, Pelosi sat down for a back-and-forth with CNN anchor Jake Tapper. But though Tapper is known for having very different standards for Republican guests than he does for his Democrat guests, he had a couple of uncomfortable questions for her, with one in particular causing a mini-meltdown.
The eruption came when Tapper brought up GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s remarks at a Savannah, Georgia campaign event earlier about how Harris, in his view, has more cognitive issues than Biden. When Tapper wondered if Pelosi had a response to what Trump had said, she snapped:
“Why would you even cover that? This is a person who’s not on the level. He is their nominee for president. He is incompetent. Let’s not even talk about the silliness of it all and the weirdness of it all and the assault on women that it is. We’re not going to talk issues.”
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At another point in the same segment, Pelosi told quite the whopper about her level of involvement in advising presidential campaigns, proclaiming that she is confident that the candidates are smart and wise enough to chart their own paths without her intervention:
“I never give advice to presidential candidates. The wisdom that they have, the political astuteness that they have to become the presidential candidate says they know something about the market out there.”
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Except she does indeed advise presidential candidates, whether directly or indirectly, the latter of which we saw play out spectacularly in July, when she strategically put the wheels in motion to shame Biden into dropping out of the presidential race complete with threats “to release humiliating polling data to back” up her belief Biden could not defeat Trump:
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Pelosi sent an urgent message to the 81-year-old president last month while he was still nursing his COVID-19 infection at his Delaware beach house, insiderstold the Daily Mail.
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Pelosi threatened to go public with her belief that her fellow Democrat wouldn’t beat the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, in a rematch — and threatened to release humiliating polling data to back it up, the sources alleged.
She would later admit to Tapper during the Democrat National Convention that she “did what I had to do” to shove Biden out the door.
While Rep. Pelosi got what she wanted, it remains to be seen as to whether the palace coup she put in motion pays off. But it certainly will be worth seeing her reaction in the event Trump and Vance emerge victorious in November. I’m stocking up on the popcorn just in case.
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