‘Where Is Your Calculator Now?: MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend Scorches Nancy Pelosi for ‘Helping Orchestrate the Very Public Demise’ of President Joe Biden

MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend vilified former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for helping organize what she called “the very public demise” of President Joe Biden. During a segment on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Sanders-Townsend and several other panelists discussed the fallout from the 2024 presidential race and what ultimately contributed to Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss. In that discussion, Sanders-Townsend challenged Pelosi for not running interference sooner in the presidential race. After Biden’s rough debate performance in June, in which he was seen making several verbal gaffes and struggling to form intelligible answers, questions began to surface about his mental fitness and overall capability to handle another four years in office. Pelosi went on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on July 10, offering a mostly neutral response about whether the president should withdraw from the race. “It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,” Pelosi said on “Morning Joe.” “We’re all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. I think overwhelming support of the caucus — it’s not for me to say, I’m not the head of the caucus anymore — but, he’s beloved, he is respected, and people want him to make that decision.”...