Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she is not calling for President Biden to resign when asked about Democrats’ calls for the president to do so following his negatively reviewed presidential debate performance.
“I don’t know who’s doing this,” Pelosi said of calls for Biden to step aside and make room for someone new to enter the race against former President Trump, according to MSNBC, in an audio clip played on the program. anchor Ali Velshi. Saturday.
“I’m not going to do that,” Pelosi said in the clip.
Biden’s debate performance, during which he had a hoarse voice and stumbled over his words, raised widespread fears in his party and raised questions about his viability at the top of the ticket. Even staunch Democratic figures, including those who previously worked with former President Obama, expressed their feelings about how they thought Thursday night’s debate between Biden and former President Trump went.
“Obviously this debate was a disaster,” former Obama administration speechwriter and “Pod Save America” co-host Jon Favreau posted Friday morning on the social platform X. “We have to defeat Donald Trump. We need a candidate who can do that.”
Former Obama senior adviser and Democratic strategist David Axelrod said his party was shaken after the debate.
“I think there was a sense of shock, actually, at the way he presented himself at the start of this debate. How his voice sounded. He seemed a little disoriented. He got stronger as the debate went on,” Axelrod said. “I think you will hear discussions that I don’t know if they will lead to anything, but there will be discussions about whether he should continue.”
After the debate, Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.), urged friend party members to “relax” after reports of anxiety among Democrats.
“I refuse to join the Democratic vultures on Biden’s shoulder after the debate. No one knows better than me that a difficult debate is not the sum total of the person and their record,” Fetterman said in an X post.
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