Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) slammed former President Trump for his attacks on the intelligence of Vice President Harris Friday.
“I don’t pay attention to what he has to say,” Pelosi told MSNBC host Joy Reid on “The ReidOut.” “It’s pathetic.”
At a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate Thursday, Trump said Harris is “not smart enough to do a news conference.” The former president’s campaign has aimed criticism at Harris for not taking questions from reporters since she kicked off her campaign last month.
On Thursday, Harris took some questions from reporters who went with her to Michigan and she has said she wants to do an extended interview prior to August ending.
“Let’s just talk about her as the best person to run and lead us to victory as president of the United States,” Pelosi said of Harris. “She happens to be a woman, and that’s icing on the cake.”
Harris has garnered large amounts of enthusiasm and energy from those in her party following President Biden’s exit from the presidential race. The Hill has reported that out of public sight, Pelosi pushed for Biden to step out of the race, although she has denied trying to get him to do so.
“No, I wasn’t a leader of any pressure party,” Pelosi said in a recent interview. “Well, let me say things that I didn’t do. I didn’t call one person. I did not call one person. I could always say to him, ‘I never called anybody.’ What I’m saying is, I had confidence that the president would make the proper choice for our country, whatever that would be, and I said that. ‘Whatever that is, we’ll go with.’”
The vice president is now neck and neck with the former president in an average of national polls from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ, with Harris behind Trump by only 0.2 points.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign.