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'What the f*** did you just do?' Obama's furious call to Nancy Pelosi after election betrayal
'What the f***?' Obama's rage at Pelosi after election betrayal
Barack Obama was not pleased that Nancy Pelosi endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris the day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, a new book claims.
Former President Barack Obama was not pleased that former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris the day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
In his new book Retribution, ABC News' Jonathan Karl provided new details on what had been widely known - that Obama didn't want a quick coronation of Harris, but rather 'a process' to determine who would become the Democratic nominee.
The Daily Mail obtained an advanced copy.
Obama called Pelosi shortly after her endorsement of Harris became public.
'The Obamas were not happy,' a Pelosi confidant told Karl. 'This person summed up Obama's message to Pelosi as, essentially, "What the f*** did you just do?"'
Pelosi told the former Democratic president: 'That train has left the station.'
The endorsement had come as a surprise to Obama because he and Pelosi had been in 'regular communication' as it appeared then 81-year-old Biden was nearing the decision to drop out of the race, and 'they agreed Harris should not simply be handed the nomination unchallenged,' Karl wrote.
'Therefore, Obama and Pelosi - arguably the two most influential figures in the Democratic Party - had privately agreed to abstain from making any endorsements,' the longtime ABC News reporter said.
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'The former president wanted to know what had happened. Why had Pelosi issued a statement endorsing Harris so soon? Hadn't he and Pelosi agreed days earlier that party leaders anointing the vice president as Biden’s replacement would be a mistake?' Karl wrote.
A source close to Obama told Karl that the former president wasn't actually angry at Pelosi over the endorsement, characterizing the conversation as a 'good-natured ribbing.'
But the source close to the California congresswoman remembered it differently, believing Obama sounded 'genuinely irritated' by Pelosi's move, using the four-letter word to describe the tone.
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But with major Democrats like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and potential challengers like Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer quickly backing Harris, 'she had no choice,' Karl wrote.
'No other candidates had stepped forward - Kamala Harris was it. The only thing Pelosi could do was try to help her win the election,' Karl said.
Obama and his wife, former First Lady Michelle Obama, made the same assessment days later, officially endorsing Harris in a campaign video five days after Biden exited the 2024 race.
Commentary:
Hmm..., a fine example of the hypocrisy of the left after No Kings Day….”You’ll take our candidate or else!
Democrats stabbed Joe in the back.
Joey B then turned right around and stabbed them in the back with a quick endorsement of Kamala Harris. That was a real “Screw you!” to his own party.
Pelosi was caught off guard and didn’t know what to do so she just went along with Joe’s endorsement.
Democrats led by Obama and Pelosi screwed things up welly before June of 2024.
Biden shouldn’t have been president. He was mentally unfit before he ran and Democrat hierarchy knew it. But Covid was the cover up. Harris blew the primaries and they should have picked a way better vice presidential candidate. The picked a loser that they couldn’t beat the current president. Lots of political mistakes.
Obama has done more to divide this country than any previous president, and the demented Joey Biden just continued his legacy.
Is there trouble and turmoil in the Democrat paradise? San Fran Nan was of no help in totally botched 2024 election.
Now the "Party" is in total disarray and it will take years to recover.
