The Democratic Party now finds itself grappling with how it lost so definitively, and how it so thoroughly misunderstood the American electorate.

Throughout Harris’s time atop the ticket, speculation festered that Biden had been bitter over the mutiny against him. Biden later gave an address to the Democratic National Convention in August and then jetted off immediately afterward, missing the rest of the party gathering.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in portions of a New York Times podcast interview published Friday, blamed Vice President Kamala Harris' election loss on President Joe Biden's late exit from the presidential race and the lack of Democratic primary.

Pelosi was among the top Democratic officials who pushed the 81-year-old president to step aside after his disastrous debate performance this summer.