John Fetterman Attacks Nancy Pelosi Over Biden Ouster: ‘Really Ironic That You Have a Woman at Age 84’ Who ‘Is Still Hanging On’

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Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) criticized Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over her role in getting President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race and her continued criticism of Biden in a new interview with Politico released on Thursday afternoon.

After his interlocutor noted that Fetterman opposed the calls for Biden to drop out, Fetterman observed that “We can both agree that he had a rough debate” against Donald Trump before going in on Pelosi.

“People like [Nancy] Pelosi, she really tried to — what’s the word I’m looking for? — she embraced this ‘she’s the godmother, she’s the enforcer.’ And now she’s blaming Biden. Well, you can’t have it both ways. You got what you wanted, and now you’re still blaming Biden,” he observed. “I think it’s really ironic that you have a woman at age 84 and she is still hanging on. Why not give a younger generation an opportunity to occupy that seat?”

Pelosi reportedly played a key role in forcing an unwilling Biden out of the race. More recently, after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden’s replacement on the ticket, in the presidential election, Pelosi took shots at both Biden and Harris.

“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race. The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary,” she told The New York Times.

“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,” she continued. “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.”