The former House Speaker also seemed to reject any analysis blaming Democrats for their election loss on a failure to win over working families.

Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” the former House speaker said in an interview with The New York Times, suggesting she had anticipated an “open primary.

"Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race," Pelosi said in an interview on Thursday published by the New York Times the next day. "The

The former Speaker of the House expressed regret that President Biden hadn't gotten out of the race sooner, when they could have held a primary to replace him.

Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi shared with the New York Times. “The anticipation was that, if the president

In an interview Thursday with The New York Times, Pelosi said what was widely reported around the time Biden dropped out: that she believed it was implicitly understood that his exit would be followed by an internal party competition for a new nominee,