House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Democrats to unite against US President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential race during an exclusive CNN interview. Pelosi also pointed out that the Democrats in the presidential race "would be a better president" than Trump.
"I can't even envision a situation where he would be reelected. But we are not, we don't take anything for granted. As I say, we have to have our own vision for the future. But everybody knows that we must be unified in making sure that he does not have a second term," Pelosi said.
She emphasized that Democrats "have a better vision for America and we must defeat Donald Trump."
"We know one thing: we have a better vision for America, and we must defeat Donald Trump who does not share a vision that is about unity and unifying the country," she added.
Pelosi further explained that the Democratic Party is "a party of vitality, differences of opinion, which we will resolve. She added that she has "trust in the American people" and "it isn't up to me to decide, it's up to the people."
Pelosi does not have a candidate to endorse yet, but she is considering Vice President Joe Biden. "I'm grateful to all of them for putting themselves on the line, putting forth their ideas. And now, we come down to the winnowing process," she quipped, adding "quite frankly, with all the respect in the world for Iowa and New Hampshire, I'm not counting Joe Biden out. There's still races ahead that are much more representative of the country."
The House Speaker thinks that the 2020 Democratic candidates had valuable contributions to the debate and “would be a better president than the current occupant of the White House."
"I think every one of our candidates, all 25 -- I don't know if Michael Bloomberg is counted in the 25, but Michael Bloomberg, too -- have made a very valuable contribution to the debate putting forth their vision, their knowledge, their judgment, their strategic thinking," she said.
Pelosi also did not hold back from commenting on Trump’s State of the Union address to Congress. She thinks that President turned the House of Representatives into “a backdrop for a reality show.”
"I was very disappointed in the fact that the President used the chamber of the House of Representatives, the people's House, as a backdrop for a reality show.”
