Nancy Pelosi has VERY awkward response when asked about her relationship with Biden after he dropped out of the race

Nancy Pelosi said 'you'd person to ask' Joe Biden about nan authorities of their narration aft nan erstwhile speaker of nan location admitted she hasn't spoken to him since he ended his re-election campaign.

The 2 long-time Democrat Party leaders person been friends successful Washington for decades but immoderate person alleged that Pelosi was portion of nan effort to push nan 81-year-old Biden retired of nan race. 

Pelosi, appearing connected CNN arsenic portion of a media circuit to beforehand her caller memoir, didn't look to dissuade those rumors erstwhile questioned astir Biden Monday.

She was asked by Dana Bash: 'Have you spoken to President Biden since he dropped out?' 

'No,' nan 84-year-old Pelosi - whose charismatic title is now Speaker Emarata aft stepping down arsenic speaker successful 2023 - responded.

Bash past questioned: 'Is everything good pinch your relationship?'

'You'd person to inquire him,' remarked Pelosi.

Earlier Monday, Pelosi revealed nan sadistic logic she wanted Biden to exit nan statesmanlike race. 

'I was asking for a run that would win. And I wasn't seeing that connected nan horizon,' she told ABC's Good Morning America connected Monday. 

But she denied reports that she led a unit run to push Biden to exit nan race. 

'The only personification I said to astir this was nan president. Other group called maine astir what their views were astir it, but I seldom moreover returned a call, overmuch little initiated one,' she said.

The erstwhile speaker has spent overmuch of her interviews praising Biden for exiting nan race. She moreover told CBS that he belonged on Mount Rushmore.

There are reports Biden is angry astatine her for her domiciled successful his ouster. Pelosi was moving behind-the-scenes to effort and calm panicked Democrats aft Biden's first statement performance, wherever he stared into abstraction and struggled to reply questions. 

Democrats were worried that, pinch Biden astatine nan apical of nan ticket, they would suffer nan House, Senate, and White House.

Pelosi was said to beryllium relaying those messages to nan White House.

Publicly she ever said she trusted Biden would make nan correct decision, a connection she echoed successful Monday's interview.  

'I person nan top respect for nan president,' she told GMA. 'I deliberation he will beryllium 1 of nan astir consequential presidents successful our country. I want him, his legacy, to beryllium recognized, preserved.'

'I wasn't asking him to measurement down. I was asking for a run that would win. And I wasn't seeing that connected nan horizon,' she said.

She besides explained what it takes to person a winning campaign: 'Winning an predetermination is simply a decision. You make a determination to triumph and make each determination successful favour of winning, successful position of really you mobilize astatine nan grassroots level and ain nan crushed to get retired nan vote.' 

'How you person a connection that is bold and progressive, but not menacing to nan public. And really you person nan money to do that, to pull that mostly from mini donors. And past nan astir important determination is nan candidate.'