Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) criticized former President Trump for his attacks on Vice President Harris’ intelligence on Friday.
“I don’t pay attention to what he has to say,” Pelosi told MSNBC host Joy Reid on “The ReidOut.” “It’s pathetic.”
At a press conference Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump said Harris “isn’t smart enough to give a press conference.” The former president’s campaign criticized Harris for not answering reporters’ questions since she began her campaign last month.
On Thursday, Harris answered some questions from reporters who went with her to Michigan, and she said she wants to do an extended interview before the end of August.
“Let’s just talk about her as the best person to run and lead us to victory as president of the United States,” Pelosi said of Harris. “It turns out she’s a woman, and that’s the icing on the cake.”
Harris garnered great enthusiasm and energy from those in her party following President Biden’s exit from the presidential race. The Hill reported that, out of public view, Pelosi pushed for Biden to drop out of the race, although she denied trying to convince him to do so.
“No, I was not a leader of any lobbying party,” Pelosi said in a recent interview. “Well, let me tell you things I didn’t do. I didn’t call one person. I didn’t call one person. I could always tell him, ‘I never called anyone.’ What I’m saying is that I had confidence that the president would make the right choice for our country, whatever it was, and I said so. ‘Whatever it is, we’ll go with it.’”
The vice president is now neck and neck with the former president in The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s national poll average, with Harris trailing Trump by just 0.2 points.
The Hill reached out to the Trump campaign.
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