Nancy Pelosi's sharp rebuke to reporter's Biden query: 'Am I speaking English to you?'
Nancy Pelosi
Former United StatesHouse of RepresentativesSpeaker Nancy Pelosi had a terse exchange with a reporter on Wednesday (Jul 10) while walking down a hallway. The reporter, Rachel Scott from ABC News, asked Pelosi if she thought President Joe Biden should remain in the race for White House with around four months left for the presidential election.
Pelosi, who was initially reluctant to discuss such matters in the hallway, eventually stopped and turned to address Scott's questions about Biden's reelection bid.
“Am I speaking English to you? I’m not going to be making any statements about any of that right now in the hallway,” Pelosi told Scott, as shown in a video that the ABC News reporter posted on X.
The former US House speakersaid that she believes Biden will win in November.
Earlier, in an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the former speaker turned heads when she stated that it's up to him to decide, despite the president's insistence that he will continue to run for office.
“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” Pelosi said on MSNBC.
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“We’re all encouraging him to make that decision. Because time is running short,” Pelosi said.
Former Obama adviser David Axelrod said later on Wednesday that Pelosi’s comments were significant.
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“Nancy Pelosi is a very deliberate person,” he said on CNN. “And what she’s saying, delicately and respectfully, is, ‘No, really the conversation isn’t over, and we still need to have this discussion.'”
Following a poor debate performance last month, Biden has encountered increasing pressure to withdraw from the race. Some Democratic lawmakers have urged him to step down, but the president has consistently asserted that he will not be dropping out ofthe race.
Some news outlets interpreted Pelosi's remarks on MSNBC as a call for Biden to rethink his decision to stay in the race, a description she reportedly contested.
Pelosi told CBS News on Wednesday that "there are some misrepresentations of what I have said," and that she "never said he should reconsider his decision."
The former US House speakerhas expressed her support for the president amid the ongoing debate and has also resisted outright asking him to withdraw.
(With inputs from agencies)
