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US President Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 US presidential election in July. Some US media said that it was the continuous push of former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that forced Biden to withdraw from the election.

On August 4th local time, Pelosi responded to this in an interview with CBS, saying that "he knows I love him very much" and praised Biden as "a very important American president" who could be added to Mount Rushmore.

During the interview, the CBS reporter mentioned that Pelosi was accused of pressuring Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. The reporter said, "There are many reports that you are the leader of the pressure campaign." "It is said that he (Biden) is very angry with you, is that right?"

Pelosi responded: "He knows that I love him very much." She said she was not the leader of any pressure campaign. "I have never called anyone. What I will say is that I have confidence that the president will make the right choice for our country, no matter what the choice is, as I said before, 'Whatever it is, we will accept it.'"

The reporter pressed: "Do you see Biden's decline? Do you think he needs to step aside?"

"No, I mean, whatever he decides, we have to campaign more aggressively," Pelosi said.

Pelosi reportedly mentioned Biden's many achievements during the interview, calling him "a very important president of the United States, like the presidents on Mount Rushmore."

The reporter asked, "Are you really saying he belongs on Mount Rushmore? Put Lincoln and Biden together?"

"There's also Roosevelt there, he was great. I didn't say take him down, but Biden can be added in," Pelosi replied.

Public information shows that Mount Rushmore National Memorial, also known as Mount Rushmore, has four 60-foot (about 18-meter) high portraits of famous former presidents in American history, namely George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

According to a previous report by The Washington Post, three Democratic officials familiar with Pelosi's private conversations said that since the first debate, Pelosi has been playing a "powerful role" behind the scenes, passing messages between Democrats and the White House in an attempt to resolve the political crisis. The report said that Pelosi, who "still has great influence," told some House Democrats that she "firmly believes Biden will soon be persuaded to withdraw from the presidential race."

NBC also quoted three sources as saying that whenever the voices within the Democratic Party calling for Biden to withdraw from the election began to subside, they believed that Pelosi was fanning the flames and putting pressure on Biden again.

According to NBC, in addition to pushing Democratic lawmakers and donors to put pressure on Biden behind the scenes, Pelosi used her personal relationship with Biden to privately "warn" Biden about the reality of the 2024 election: that he might lose to their common political enemy, Republican Donald Trump, and that he might even harm the Democratic Party on the ballot, potentially causing the Democratic Party to lose control of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The report also said that Biden was angry when he found that Pelosi, former US President Obama and other Democratic leaders refused to support him.

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