During a Tuesday interview discussing Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) new book, leftist journalist Katie Couric pushed the former House Speaker on her obvious hypocrisy related to President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and fitness for office.
While Pelosi has repeatedly defended Biden’s cognitive health in public, she reportedly worked behind the scenes last month to press him to drop out of the presidential race. However, Pelosi and her fellow Democrats refused to push Biden to end his reelection bid until they were forced to do so when his clear cognitive decline was on display during Biden’s debate with former President Donald Trump.
BIDEN: "Look, we finally beat medicare."
TRUMP: "Well, he's right. He did beat medicaid. Beat it to death."
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 28, 2024
Pelosi has still refused to comment on Biden’s decline in public, but Couric tried to push the issue during the Tuesday interview.
The conversation began when Couric questioned Pelosi about a passage in her new book, where the former House Speaker wrote that Trump’s family should have “staged an intervention” with him when he began speaking out about fraud in the 2020 election. Couric responded to that passage by questioning why Pelosi would not advocate for the same “intervention” method when it came to Biden’s decline.
“With all due respect, Speaker Pelosi, when I read that, I wondered, couldn’t the same thing be said about President Biden?” the journalist asked. “Should people have earlier determined that perhaps he didn’t have the physical stamina to endure a reelection campaign and put the Democratic Party in a better position for this election?”
Pelosi refused to even acknowledge the argument, claiming that Couric was “making an equivalence here that doesn’t exist.”
“Whether you think there’s stamina to run again and serve for four years is quite different whether you are undermining our democracy in the office that you hold,” Pelosi claimed. “And that’s what Donald Trump was doing. This was about his harm to the country and his instability that he was bringing to it, and the anti-patriotic attitude he had. It wasn’t about whether he was healthy enough to do this or that by physical health. It was what was happening in his distortion of the facts and how he was misrepresenting to the public. Two completely different situations … If it’s just a question of if somebody has the stamina to [serve] for four years, we have addressed that. They haven’t.”
Couric continued to press the issue, questioning whether there should have been “more transparency” when it came to Biden’s clear cognitive decline, despite any differences between him and Trump.
Pelosi once again refused to answer, repeating that “they’re not equivalent.”
“But that doesn’t answer the question of whether there should have been more transparency,” Couric pressed again. “If President Biden was too protected and kept from the public for too long, and that it put the Democratic Party at a disadvantage, given the election is less than 100 days away?”
Pelosi responded by repeating that Biden is “not the candidate” twice.
Couric tried once again to ask whether Biden’s health should have been “dealt with earlier,” but Pelosi immediately steered the topic to another issue.
'That Doesn't Answer The Question': Katie Couric Presses Nancy Pelosi Over Lack Of 'Transparency' About Biden's Health pic.twitter.com/aIrI5128or
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 6, 2024
This conversation underscored the clear divide between the Republican and Democrat parties, as it seems that prominent Democrats still refuse to even acknowledge any issues with Biden, while Republicans have never avoided questions and debates about Trump. Beyond that, Pelosi and the Democrats also refuse to acknowledge the undemocratic way that Biden was ousted and replaced with Vice President Kamala Harris without any voting from the American people — though the narratives seem to be breaking if left-leaning mainstream media journalists like Couric actually dare to ask the questions.