President Joe Biden finally admitted that Nancy Pelosi ‘s concerns about other Democratic races contributed to his decision to exit the race. 

‘A number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was going to hurt them in the races,’ Biden said in his first interview since ending his reelection campaign.

‘And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic — you’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say [something] … and I thought it’d be a real distraction,’ he said in the interview with CBS News Sunday Morning host Robert Costa.

A growing list of Democrats were calling for Biden to drop out of the race after his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump in June.

Joe Biden opened up about dropping out of the race in his first interview since ending his reelection bid with CBS Sunday Morning

 Immediately after ending his bid, Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to take his spot on the ticket in November.

Former House Speaker Pelosi was among those building pressure on Biden to step aside, along with other top Party Leaders like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Adam Schiff.

Biden’s cognitive decline was on display during his debate with Trump and Democrats who were for years downplaying concerns about the president’s fitness were forced to confront it.

In the weeks after the debate, Biden was on clean-up duty – but his efforts just led to more gaffes and fumbles that increased worries that the president could hurt the chances of other Democratic politicians in their elections.

Biden insisted he only wanted to be a one-term, ‘transition president’ to welcome in new leadership and acknowledged he might be too old to be president.

‘When I ran the first time, I thought of myself of being a transition president,’ Biden said.

‘I can’t even say how old I am, it’s hard for me to get out of my mouth,’ he continued/ But, things got moving so quickly, it didn’t happen.’

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was among those building pressure on Biden to step aside – and Biden said he became more and more worried his continued candidacy would affect congressional races in the fall