Pelosi Defends Biden After Debate Debacle And Her Interview Doesn’t Go That Great Either

Former Democratic Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi defended President Joe Biden Sunday against the growing tide of questions about his age and mental fitness in the wake of the disastrous debate with ex-president Donald Trump on Thursday.

On Sunday’s State of the Union on CNN, anchor Dana Bash asked Pelosi about calls for Biden to replaced on the Democratic ticket and specifically brought up Thomas Friedman’s New York Times column calling out those who are “enabling” Biden’s continued candidacy.

“If he insists on running and he loses to Trump, Biden and his family — and his staff and party members who enabled him — will not be able to show their faces,” Friedman wrote.

Pelosi took the opposite view, the 84-year-old Democrat chalking it all up to a “bad night” and that Trump is the one who really has mental acuity issues.

“And by the way, while the press, and for some reason they don’t, there are a health care professionals who think that that Trump has dementia, that his connection of, his thoughts do not go together,” she said. “Not only that he just lies. He doesn’t even know the truth. So if we’re just talking about mental acuity, let’s be fair about it.”

“So in any case, it was a bad night, let’s not,” Pelosi said at one point before an inopportune pause, finally finishing her thought with, “… sugarcoat that.”

“It was a bad night. It was a great presidency,” she said.

It was an interview that some, particularly Republicans, felt was itself a poor outing, especially given the context.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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