IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME WEATHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT 
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/politics/pelosi-harris-biden-open-primary.html
In an interview on Thursday with The New York Times, Ms. Pelosi said what was widely reported around the time Mr. Biden dropped out: that she believed it was implicitly understood that his exit would be followed by an internal party competition for a new nominee, instead of an anointment of Vice President Kamala Harris.
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1gms5kz/pelosi_laments_bidens_late_exit_and_the_lack_of/
She was done dirty 
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She's full of shit and just politicking to distance herself from the disaster. How often does a VP not get the nomination? An open primary against a sitting VP would likely have been a divisive shit show.
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Imagine not nominating a
BLACK WOMAN
and the outrage by idpol-addled Dem voters.
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Biden in 2016. Cheney in 2008, some guy named Alben W. Barkley in 1952. So it's rare but not unheard of.
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Biden and Cheney both chose not to run, that's quite a bit different. Harris clearly has far too much hubris to not run.
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Admittedly they were in a lose-lose-lose when the choice was made for Biden to stay in. It's doubtful Pelosi disagreed with the party line the day he dropped out anything more than a few passing comments, and she's kittyfooting around too much to say she wanted him to have never run for a 2nd term.
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