Tomorrow is First Lady Jill Biden’s last day occupying The White House as President-elect Donald Trump officially is sworn into office tomorrow.
But as Biden walks out the doors, she’s erring grievances against former allies within the Democratic Party — particularly former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who was vocal at pushing President Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.
Here’s what Jill Biden really thinks of Pelosi now that she’ll be out of office.
Late last week, Jill Biden voiced displeasure with Pelosi over how she seemingly fueled a revolt against her husband during the 2024 election.
Last Wednesday, The Washington Post published a report about its “exit interview” with Jill Biden, noting that the first lady has become the “keeper of the family grudges.”
This is apparently a nod to what she wrote in her 2019 memoir about recalling “every slight committed” against the people that she loves.
“Which brings us to Nancy Pelosi, whom Jill has known nearly as long as Joe,” the report said. “Who had been a close friend to Joe as they ascended to the highest tier of American politics. Whom Jill couldn’t wait to invite to the White House once coronavirus restrictions allowed the Bidens to entertain. And who went on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ in July with a shiv.”
After a disastrous debate performace, internal grumblings led be Pelosi began to surface.
Shortly after the infamous debate debacle, CNN reported Pelosi privately told Biden that polls showed he could not defeat Trump like he did in 2020 and that he could hurt other members of his party in down-ticket races if he did not bow out.
During the afrorementioned MSNBC interview Pelosi emphasized that she would support whatever decision Biden made about his political future at a time when the president was already insisting he would not leave the race.
“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” she said.
Her remarks on MSNBC reportedly emboldened more Democrats to turn on Biden.
According to The Washington Post, this is how the exchange with Jill Biden when it came to Pelosi unfolded:
“‘Like I said,’ Jill says now, seated in the Green Room of the White House on the first Sunday of January, ‘I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships.’
Her face, nearly pearlescent with lustrous foundation, betrays no particular emotion. She’s holding a china cup.
Tea. With honey and lemon.
‘It’s been on my mind a lot lately, and — ‘
Jill pauses.
‘We were friends for 50 years.’ She is using her teacher’s voice now. ‘It was disappointing.’”
Pelosi went on the blame the outcome of the 2024 race on Biden during an interview with The New York Times.
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi said, adding, “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.”
Pelosi also said: “And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.”
In addition to Jill Biden voicing her anger with Pelosi, additional reports that Joe Biden was also frustrated at Pelosi have surfaced for pressing him to step aside.
However, Biden insisted during an interview on ABC’s “The View” in September that his relationship with Pelosi was “fine.”