Pelosi Sends Brutal Signal to Biden on Dropping Out: ‘Time is Running Short’

After praising President Joe Biden’s “spectacular” performance at the NATO summit on Tuesday, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelos i (D-CA) was curiously noncommittal about the president’s staying in the 2024 race. Her warning that “time is running short” seemed to suggest that, in her eyes, Biden has not yet decided to stay in the race, despite his repeated assistance that he has.

While appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday to discuss her op-ed in The Washington Post , Pelosi was asked by co-host Jonathan Lemire if she still supported Biden’s reelection as the sentiment among Democrats was splintering:

Lemire: So, Madam Speaker, you just went through the president’s record, but let me ask you about the current moment. Does he have your support to be the head of the Democrats?

Pelosi: It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run. We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. I think overwhelming support of the caucus — it’s not for me to say, I’m not the head of the caucus anymore — but, he’s beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision.

Lemire then pressed Speaker Emerita, reminding her that Biden insisted that he was still running on Monday:

Lemire: He has said he has made the decision. He has said firmly this week he is going to run. Do you want him to run?

Pelosi: I want him to do whatever he decides to do. And that’s the way it is. Whatever he decides, we go with. I think it’s really important and I would hope everyone would join in. Let him deal with this NATO conference. This is a very big deal. Thirty heads of — over 30 heads of state are here. He is the host of it, and that means not just hosting, it means orchestrating the discussion and setting the agenda. And he’s doing so magnificently. And I’ve said to everyone, let’s just hold off whatever you’re thinking. Either tell somebody privately, but you don’t have to put that out on the table until we see how we go this week. But I’m very proud of the president.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.