Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) recently attempted to rewrite history by claiming newly-anointed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris “won” an open primary, which, in reality, she did not.
Speaking at an event hosted by Semafor on Wednesday, Pelosi, who has all but taken credit for ending Joe Biden’s reelection bid by pushing him off the Democrat presidential ticket, falsely claimed an open primary was held and Kamala Harris won.
Asked if she’d changed her mind to support Kamala after previously favoring an open primary process if Biden stepped down, Pelosi incorrectly claimed an open primary had indeed been held with Harris emerging victorious.
"We had an open primary and [Kamala Harris] won it. Nobody else got in the race," @SpeakerPelosi tells @kadiagoba. pic.twitter.com/y2O0JhKBgc
— Semafor (@semafor) September 18, 2024
“No, I didn’t change my mind. We had an open primary and [Kamala Harris] won it. Nobody else got in the race,” Pelosi claimed.
She added, “Yes people could have jumped in – there were some people who were sort of preparing, but she just took off with it, and actually it was a blessing because there was not that much time between then and the election and it sort of saved time.”
The fact that Kamala didn’t win the 2024 Democrat presidential primaries has been an issue frequently brought up by former President Donald Trump, most recently mentioned during his debate with Harris earlier this month, where he said, “She got no votes. [Biden] got 14 million votes. You talk about a threat to democracy? [They] threw him out of office.”
This is why Biden put on the Trump hat:
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) September 11, 2024
TRUMP: "She got no votes. [Biden] got 14 million votes. You talk about a threat to democracy? [They] threw him out of office."
"I'll give you a little secret – he hates her."
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The longtime congresswoman was reportedly the top level Democrat hatchet man operative tasked with ending Biden’s re-election bid.
She defended her role in ousting Joe Biden from the 2024 race at the DNC last month.
“I did what I had to do,” Pelosi told CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, going on to claim, “He made the decision for the country. And my concern was not about the president, it was about his campaign.”
Nancy Pelosi disenfranchised 14 million Democrat primary voters and ended Joe Biden’s 52 year political career in a coup:
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) August 20, 2024
“I did what I had to do…my concern was not about the president, it was about his campaign.”
This is not the party of Democracy…
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Heritage Action For America executive director Ryan Walker slammed Pelosi’s false interpretation of history, saying, “The votes of 14 million Americans who voted for Joe Biden were thrown away as Harris was installed as the Democrats’ nominee for president – a job for which she has never received a single vote.”
“Saying she won an open primary is a joke,” he added.
Evidently, Democrats are operating on the “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it” principle.