Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is downplaying reports she led the pressure campaign to push President Joe Biden to step down as the 2024 Democratic nominee.
“No, I wasn’t the leader of any pressure [campaign],” Pelosi told CBS in a clip of an interview that aired on Saturday. “Let me say things that I didn’t do: I didn’t call one person. I did not call one person. I could always say to him, ‘I never called anybody.’”
In the snippet, Pelosi also responded to reports Biden was “furious” with her regarding her role in the pressure campaign and not publicly supporting him, with Democrats, including close allies to her, such as Reps. Jared Huffman (D‑CA), Zoe Lofgren (D‑CA), and Adam Schiff (D‑CA), instead encou …