House Dem leader offers support for VP Harris after Pelosi remarks raise eyebrows

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) offered his support Sunday for Vice President Harris after former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appeared hesitant to back the vice president last week.

“Far be it for me to ever speak for Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi, the greatest Speaker of all times,” Jeffries said on ABC’s “This Week” when asked about Pelosi’s recent comments. “She’s very capable of answering that question on her own.

“I will say that Vice President Harris has been a great vice president. She’ll be a great running mate. She has been a tremendous partner in the things that President Biden has been able to accomplish, which have been phenomenal.”

Jeffries was responding to comments Pelosi made in an interview last week, where she was asked about whether Harris was the best running mate for President Biden in their bid for reelection.

“He thinks so, and that’s what matters,” she said when first asked.

“And, by the way,” Pelosi continued, not stopping when CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked whether she also thought so, “She’s very politically astute. I don’t think people give her enough credit.”

Jeffries praised Harris, saying that she was instrumental in the White House’s accomplishments over the past two years, including “fixing our crumbling infrastructure, clean water in every single community, bringing domestic manufacturing jobs back home to the United States of America.”

“President Biden has led that effort. House Democrats and Senate Democrats have worked with the administration, they got those things done. Vice President Harris has been a tremendous partner,” he said.