Why Nancy Pelosi Felt It's ‘Impossible’ for Donald Trump to Become President Again

Months before an election that has Donald Trump as the GOP nominee, a New York jury found former US President Donald Trump guilty of all charges in his hush-money case, making him the first former US president to be found guilty of a crime. However, at one point in time, the former 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, stated that it was 'impossible' for the Republican leader to become president again.

At the time, Joe Biden was the presumed Democrat nominee (though VP Kamala Harris has since taken the ticket). Nonetheless, earlier this year, during an interview with CNN's Phil Mattingly, Pelosi expressed her disagreement with the host's claim that Democrats were worried about Trump's strong polling ratings in a prospective rematch with Biden. “Well, I don’t think that nobody feels — I think many of us know that he can't be the president again with what he is proposing,” the San Francisco representative stated. 

“This is a neck-and-neck race and no one feels very comfortable on the Democratic side of things that Donald Trump isn’t going to be the next president,” the CNN news host said. Pelosi responded, “Why do you say that?” Mattingly responded, “Well, because when you’re talking about what he is talking about now with more tax cuts for corporate America, taking them down so low to the detriment of our budget and meeting the needs of people,” the Trump critic added.  

As per The Daily Wire, Pelosi went on to state further that she believed Biden’s campaign would 'get the job done' in 2024. She also explained that 'public sentiment is everything' during the elections, and the Democratic party will win again. “Our inside maneuvering to get the job done, the president’s vision for our country, his knowledge of the issues, his strategic thinking as a legislator are so important, but so is his emotional connection, the empathy he has for working families in our country,” said Pelosi.  

Until Biden dropped out of the upcoming presidential race, he and former President Trump used to take many a jab at each other in an effort to convince voters they were the right choice. As such, at a speech held at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina—the scene of a 2015 racial shooting—President Biden verbally attacked Trump and his supporters, calling them 'defeated Confederates.'

“After the Civil War, the defeated Confederates couldn’t accept the verdict of the war, they lost. So they say they embraced what is known as the lost cause, the self-serving lie that the Civil War was not about slavery but about states’ rights. They call that the noble cause. That was a lie,” Biden stated.

“So let me be clear, slavery was the cause of the Civil War. There is no negation about that. Now, we’re living in an era of a second lost cause,” the President added. “Once again, there are some in this country trying to turn a loss into a lie. A lie which if allowed to live will once again bring terrible damage to this country. This time the lie is about the 2020 election.”

As per The Daily Wire, Biden went on to discuss the January 6, 2021, Capitol Riot, blaming Trump for 'whipping up lies' for a 'violent mob.' “Let me say what others cannot: We must reject political violence in America. Always, not sometimes, always. It is never appropriate. The violence of January 6 was the extension of an old playbook from the threats of violence and intimidation.” Pelosi echoed the same sentiments through a tweet calling for fair voting, "Today, we all must do our part to preserve American Democracy, which Lincoln called “the last best hope of earth.”

This article was originally published on 01.14.24