Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Sunday that they did not mislead Americans about President Biden’s decline or his ability to serve, despite the president’s abandonment after facing a clip from February 2024 showing him declaring the debate over Biden’s candidacy. health was “right-wing propaganda”.
NBC News’ Kristen Welker confronted the senator with a clip of Schumer speaking about Biden on February 13, 2024. Schumer said, “His mental acuity is excellent. The propaganda that his mental acuity has diminished is false. »
After playing the clip, Welker asked Schumer what he would say to Americans who believe they have been misled by leading Democrats. Schumer reportedly told the president he should withdraw from the race after the debate.
“We haven’t done it. Let’s look at President Biden. He has an incredible record. The legislation we passed, one of the most significant packages of legislation since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, putting in place 235 judges , a record, and he’s a patriot, he’s a great guy, and when he resigned, he did it on his own because he thought it was better, not just for the Democratic Party, but. for America. We all should. salute,” Schumer said. said.
Sen. Chuck Schumer insisted they did not mislead Americans about President Biden’s decline during an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker. (Screenshot/NBC)
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Welker then asked Schumer if he was confident Biden could have served a second term.
“Well, I’m not going to speculate. As I said, I think his record is remarkable and he will go down in history as a truly exceptional president,” Schumer responded.
The “Meet the Press” panel also discussed Schumer’s interview, and MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend argued that Schumer should have pushed back much harder on Welker.
“The question on the table is: Did the president make it to the end? And the answer is unequivocally yes,” Sanders insisted. “People may say it feels like President Biden is maybe a little too old to do the job, but he’s doing the job, his mental acuity is there. So I think there’s there an amalgamation of two things It’s his mental capacity and serving another four years as old as he is, but they’re two separate things, in my opinion, and these people who have known Joe Biden their whole lives and I know the president. Biden, and it’s like, can you all tell me defend a little more?
President Joe Biden speaks during the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, December 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)
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Politico’s Jonathan Martin argued that it wasn’t worth defending Biden because the president chose himself over the good of the party.
“He’s not stepping down in a way that I think reflects well on his party and Democrats are deeply, deeply unhappy about that, and they should be, frankly,” Martin said.
Marc Short, who previously worked for Vice President Mike Pence, said it hurts Democrats to try to tell Americans what they saw with their own eyes during Biden’s debate against Trump.
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“But it’s not true that the president doesn’t have mental acuity,” Sanders retorted before Short said, “of course he does.”
“He can at least craft a sentence,” Sanders argued, suggesting that President-elect Donald Trump was unable to craft a sentence.
Short asked: “Are you sure?” Sanders confidently said yes and noted that she had recently spoken to Biden.
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