SHOCK: Pelosi REVEALS Kamala Harris WAS NOT The Plan After Ousting Biden....

SHOCK: Pelosi REVEALS Kamala Harris WAS NOT The Plan After Ousting Biden....

In an audio clip from the interview done by Nancy Pelosi with the New Yorker, which appears to have been removed from the current version on Apple Podcasts, Nancy Pelosi explains that the plan after ousting Biden was not to immediately coronate Kamala Harris, but rather to have a so-called "open convention" or "open process", which it's not entirely clear how "open" it would have been if it were to have been instituted by the party bosses.

This seems to confirm what AOC was saying when she went public stating that in private the party bosses' plan after ousting Biden was NOT necessarily to go straight to Kamala. There's also further reporting in the Times today about how the Kamala Harris capture and takeover of the party was not an accident, but rather planned and prepared:

"She may seem like an overnight sensation, but Harris’ moment was years in the making. Quietly, her small team of top aides had been laying the groundwork for a future presidential run. After the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, the Vice President added reproductive rights to her portfolio. Abortion was never a comfortable issue for Biden, a devout Catholic, but it was a natural fit for his No. 2. Harris believed that with Roe gone, Republicans would turn their sights to restricting both birth control and IVF. In the months after Dobbs, she traveled the U.S., talking about abortion rights as a matter of “reproductive freedom.” As far back as the 2022 midterms, aides say, she argued for making this the core of the party’s national message, even as the White House focused on jobs and the economy.

During those travels, Harris’ team assembled a spreadsheet of allies, power brokers, and potential delegates to tap if and when the time came. Every photo line, every VIP invitation, every clutch with labor leaders, every meeting with key constituencies was filed away. The goal, advisers say, was to ensure there would be allies on every delegate slate in every state in the nation. “We had a list,” says one top aide, “and we checked it twice.”

The list was intended for 2028. But when Biden dropped out on July 21 and quickly endorsed Harris, it was instantly pressed into service. The Vice President—clad in a Howard University sweatshirt, munching pizza with anchovies—spent the next 10 hours on the phone, dialing delegates and wrangling endorsements. A day later, the nomination was all but hers. Even though other presidential hopefuls had ties to swing states or big donors, “the list was the thing that we had that they didn’t,” says a top aide. “It wasn’t a fairy godmother waving a magic wand.”"

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