Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed she never told President Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race but rather told him to give Democrats “a campaign that would win” when pressure mounted for the president to drop out.

Reports swirled in the weeks following Biden’s disastrous June presidential debate that Democratic leaders, including Pelosi, were concerned about the president’s ability to win in November and his effect on downballot Democrats. While on ABC News’s Good Morning America on Monday, Pelosi denied she had called for him to step down and said she only spoke to Biden directly.