Nancy Pelosi has blamed President Biden for Donald Trump winning the White House as a Democrat blame game intensifies.
The former House speaker, a party grandee who was instrumental in persuading the president to eventually step aside, criticised Biden for not dropping out of the race sooner.
She also said there should have been an internal process to decide on the candidate rather than the coronation of Kamala Harris.
Pelosi, 84, believes Harris would have “done well” in the primary and “been stronger going forward”.
The San Francisco representative told the New York Times: “Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.”
She added: “The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would