Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) responded to former President Trump’s statements about her being the “enemy within” by encouraging party leaders to remain focused on winning the election.
“We don’t agonize. We organize. We just have to win this election and every day that he [Trump] says something like this in these last days when people are really keenly aware and paying attention works in the favor of Kamala Harris,” Pelosi said on a Friday CNN appearance.
“Of those who are breaking from the undecided, are breaking overwhelmingly for her,” she told host Jake Tapper.
She then questioned voters who are casting ballots for Trump, describing him as “disrespectful” and “unpatriotic.”
“I could never understand how anybody would vote for somebody so disrespectful of women, so unpatriotic who speaks with disdain and negativity about John McCain and George Herbert Walker Bush and our men and women in uniform who’ve given their lives for our country and the rest,” Pelosi fumed. “I don’t know why anybody would be for him but nonetheless am respectful of the fact that they are voters and they have their right to their opinion.”
She and Trump have sparred ever since the Republican nominee called her a “Marxist” and “fascist.” The former president and his running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) have since doubled down on those comments as they remain critical of Pelosi and Vice President Harris’s leadership.
Pelosi underscored that close elections have become a normality in recent years as Harris and Trump remain in a razor thin race that promises a marginal win for either candidate.
“It’s close because elections are close,” she told Tapper. “Look back at all the elections of recent time they’re close.”
