Harris would have "been stronger going further" if the party had had an open primary, Pelosi said.
Biden also spoke to Vice President Kamala Harris on the phone Wednesday.
The vice-president failed to make the case that she would be different from her boss, President Joe Biden.
Before the election Donald Trump predicted he would win big and revealed the two excuses Democrats would use for their failure.
JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance at an election night watch party West Palm Beach, Florida, on 6 November 2024. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP
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Voters who see the opposition as dangerous and dystopian, as threats to democracy itself, won't see a loss as a national consensus. They're likely to see it as the starting bell for the next campaign.
Voters who see the opposition as dangerous and dystopian, as threats to democracy itself, won't see a loss as a national consensus. They're likely to see it as the starting bell for the next campaign.