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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one of the most influential voices in President Biden’s sphere outside of his family, sent a rare public signal Wednesday morning that suggested she is trying to nudge him to consider dropping out of the election.

“It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” she said on MSNBC. “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short.”

Pelosi sandwiched her comments between praise for Biden and his record. But Pelosi is notably careful and calculating in her public comments and well aware that Biden has repeatedly and forcefully said he has already made that decision. She spoke on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden’s favorite cable news show and the same venue where on Monday he gave one of his most defiant declarations that he would remain in the race.

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      2 months ago

      He can undecide. That’s how decisions about future events work. It’s not like there was even a point in time where the public message from Biden wasn’t “I’ve decided, I’m staying in”.

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      2 months ago

      Its an interesting rhetorical approach on her part, to put his “decision” back on the table is effectively to reject Biden’s assertion that he’s still in this.

      And good riddance to this geriatric, insider trading, genocidal apologist as well.

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      2 months ago

      I had to go look up way way way too much Marvel wiki shit to figure this out, but now that I have, its incredibly apropos.

      Why don’t you explain its meaning to the folks at home?