"Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race. The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary. I think [Harris] would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don't know that. That didn't happen. We live with what happened."
"And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different."
"She defended her efforts to move the party onto a 'better course' with a new nominee, while also praising Biden's accomplishments. The White House did not offer on-record comment for this story."
"Within 24 hours of Biden bowing out in July, as the momentum swung behind Harris as the nominee, Pelosi offered the VP her 'enthusiastic support.'"
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