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President Joe Biden talks with Rep. Nancy Pelosi during an event in the East Room of the White House. Susan Walsh/AP

Is Nancy Pelosi Really the Democratic Party’s Puppet Master?

Lawmakers told NOTUS she really wasn’t organizing the effort to sideline Biden. But they also said she was still pivotal.

President Joe Biden talks with Rep. Nancy Pelosi during an event in the East Room of the White House. Susan Walsh/AP

The memes practically write themselves.

Find a picture of Nancy Pelosi where she’s confidently doing something — walking in the Capitol with her cell phone works best — and write a caption, summoning Pelosi’s voice, where she’s laying out her vision of how one of the messiest periods in Democratic politics will play out.

The memes have gone viral, helping shape the narrative that Pelosi puppeteered the outcome of her party’s power struggle to her exact specifications.