Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Sunday that they had not misled Americans about that President Biden backed down Or the ability to serve despite the president withdrawing from the race after being confronted with a February 2024 clip of him declaring that the controversy over Biden's health was “right-wing propaganda.”
NBC News' Kristen Welker confronted the senator with a clip of Schumer talking about Biden on February 13, 2024. “His mental acuity is great. He's good. He's as good as he's been over the years. All this right-wing,” Schumer said. “The propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is false.”
After the clip played, Welker asked Schumer what he would say to Americans who believe they have been misled by top Democrats. Schumer reportedly said The president who needed to withdraw from the race after the debate.
“We didn't do that. Let's look at President Biden. He had an amazing record. The legislation that we passed, it's one of the most important pieces of legislation since Lyndon Johnson's great society, where he appointed 235 judges, which is a record, and he's a patriot. He's a great man, and when he resigned from “His position, he did it on his own initiative because he thought it was best, not just for the Democratic Party, but for America. We should all applaud him.” He said.
Sen. Chuck Schumer insisted they did not mislead Americans about President Biden's reversal 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.
Schumer responded, saying: “Well, I won’t speculate. As I said, I think his record is excellent, and he will go down in history as a truly distinguished president.”
The “Meet the Press” panel also discussed Schumer's interview and MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend argued that Schumer should have pressed Welker harder.
“The question on the table is: Has the president gotten there? And the answer is unequivocally yes,” Sanders insisted. “People can say you feel as though President Biden might be too old to do the job, but he's doing the job, his mental acuity is there. So I think there's a combination of two things there. It's his mental capacity. And he serves four more years as his age.” “But those are two separate things, in my opinion, and these people who have known Joe Biden their whole lives and I know President Biden, and it's like, can you all defend me a little bit more?”
President Joe Biden speaks at the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, on December 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Jonathan Martin of Politico said it was not worth defending Biden, because the president chose himself over the interests of the party.
“He's not leaving in a way that I think reflects well on his party, and Democrats are deeply unhappy about that, and frankly they should be,” Martin said.
Mark Short, who previously worked for Vice President Mike Pence, said trying to tell Americans what they saw with their own eyes hurts Democrats. During the Biden vs Trump.
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Sanders responded before Short said: “But it is not true that the president does not have mental capacity, of course he does.”
“He can at least string a sentence together,” Sanders said, noting that President-elect Donald Trump cannot string a sentence together.
Short asked: “Are you sure?” Sanders confidently said yes and noted that she had spoken with Biden recently.
