Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) raised some eyebrows on Friday while defending President Joe Biden’s re-election chances.
Pelosi joined CNN’s Phil Mattingly to discuss the upcoming election and disagreed with the host’s assertion that Democrats are concerned about Trump’s good polling numbers against Biden in a potential rematch.
“This is a neck-and-neck race and no one feels very comfortable on the Democratic side of things that Donald Trump isn’t going to be the next president,” Mattingly said.
“Well, I don’t think that nobody feels — I think many of us know that it is impossible for him to be the president again with what he is proposing,” Pelosi responded.
“Why do you say that?” Mattingly pressed.
“Well, because when you’re talking about what he is talking about now with more tax cuts for corporate America, taking them down so low to the detriment of our budget and meeting the needs of people,” the former House Speaker added.
Pelosi then went into how “public sentiment is everything” in an election, and she believes the winning message for 2024 is on her party’s side. She added that she is confident in Biden’s campaign “to get the job done” in 2024.
“Our inside maneuvering to get the job done, the president’s vision for our country, his knowledge of the issues, his strategic thinking as a legislator are so important, but so is his emotional connection, the empathy he has for working families in our country,” said Pelosi.
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Nancy Pelosi:
"Many of us know that it is impossible for Trump to be the president again." pic.twitter.com/hpjUaTglP6
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President Biden and his campaign have put their sights on Trump in recent weeks as the former president continues to perform well in state and national polls pitting the two candidates against each other. In a speech on Monday at Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, the site of the 2015 race-fueled shooting that killed nine black members of the church, Biden slammed Trump and his supporters, comparing them to “defeated Confederates.”
The Monday speech in South Carolina came days after Biden addressed a crowd near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, focusing on the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021, Capitol storming and celebrating the convictions of hundreds of Trump supporters in the years following.
Trump, the frontrunner in the GOP primary, is leading Biden by one point in national polls, according to the Real Clear Politics average as of Friday afternoon.