Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly gave President Joe Biden an ultimatum: bow out of the presidential race “the easy way or the hard way.”
Politico reported Monday, a day after Biden’s announcement that he would step aside as the presumptive 2024 Democrat presidential nominee, that the former Speaker and still top Democrat powerbroker put her foot down after weeks of Biden publicly insisting he would plow forward with his campaign despite major fallout from his disastrous debate performance on June 27.
“Nancy made clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way,” one Democrat source, speaking anonymously and familiar with the conversations, told the outlet. “She gave them three weeks of the easy way. It was about to be the hard way.”