Pelosi Defends Biden Not Campaigning or Doing Interviews: He Has the Weight of the World on His Shoulders

MATTINGLY: “Do you wish you — you know, you make the point of kind of who he is or how Democrats see him and why he’s been effective as a politician, particularly within the party over the course of five decades now. Do you wish he was not — I don’t mean out giving more campaign speeches more, I just mean out more, talking in interviews, talking on the ground, doing rope lines. We just haven’t seen as much of that.”
Pelosi: “Well, you know what, the president has the weight of the world on his shoulders. He’s the president of the United States. Very challenging job. There are only so many hours in the day. And I trust his judgment that when — now people are starting to pay attention. You know, again, you can be saying things — and people are busy living their lives, raising their families, doing their jobs. It’s a tough time. So you want to spend the time talking to them when they are ready to listen. And now that the campaign year has started — and you talked about the weather in Iowa for next week, I’m so sad for the voters there, even though it’s just largely a Republican caucus that they have the opportunity to cast their votes in a safe way and health-wise too, because it’s so cold but also the danger of snow, but it is — election time has vitality about it, it’s exciting, and we respect people’s views, respect their concerns. But I’ve always said, you can tell them everything you’ve done, but nobody gets elected because they deserve it. They get elected because of what they’re going to do next. And what he is going to do next is, again, to continue the work he’s done for America’s working families, whether it’s the child tax credit, continuing to save Affordable Care Act, save the reduction in prescription drugs, continue to grow the economy, but, again, in a way that is — gives confidence to people that they and their families have a role to play. People are concerned about innovation and how it affects them; globalization, how it affects them; immigration, how it affects them. And we want them to know that in all of his policies, it’s about making sure that people have the opportunity, whether it’s through education or job creation and the rest, that has the beautiful diversity of America, but also — but also includes everyone.”