Pelosi: DNC didn’t impact primary

by Mark Hensch - 07/27/16 8:13 PM ET

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) apparent favor of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders — revealed in a batch of leaked emails last week — did not have an impact on their primary battle.

“I don’t think they would have made a difference in the election,” Pelosi said of the emails Wednesday on Fox News’s “On the Record.” “I don’t think even Bernie Sanders is saying, ‘But for those emails, I would be president.’ “

{mosads}But Pelosi said the DNC and its Republican counterpart should not have any influence over primaries.

“I don’t think the DNC, the RNC, or any [national committee] should have any role in any primary,” she said.

Pelosi added Democrats should expect a slow process in unifying their party around Clinton, now its presidential nominee.

“I think they’re not a monolith,” she said of Sanders’s supporters. “It’s hard to bring your people over just like that.

“I think Sanders’s presentation Monday did a great job to bring people together,” Pelosi added, referring to the Vermont senator’s call for unity from the Democratic National Convention stage in Philadelphia.

WikiLeaks last week published a trove of nearly 20,000 DNC emails spanning from last January to late May of this year.

Some of the messages show top DNC officials seemingly planning to undermine Sanders’s Oval Office bid.

Sanders on late Monday said he remains committed to helping Clinton defeat GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump this November.

“Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president, and I am proud to stand with her tonight,” he said.