House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) refused to acknowledge over the weekend President Joe Biden’s cognitive issues when pressed on why he endorsed Biden during the 2024 presidential election.
Jeffries made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” when asked about his remarks from February 2024 when he said Biden was “definitely the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump.”
“What do you say to Americans who believe you and other top Democrats misled them?” Welker asked.
“Well, Joe Biden was the incumbent president at the time. He was the candidate at the time. And I supported him at the time. And that was the right thing to do based on the incumbent president making the decision that he was going to run,” Jeffries said. “Obviously things changed in late June and early July. But I think what’s most important at this moment is not for us to look backwards, but to look forward, solve problems for hard-working American taxpayers, and get things done.”
Welker then pressed Jeffries about whether he had a responsibility “to be more forthcoming about what you had seen behind closed doors as it relates to President Biden.”
“What I saw behind closed doors was a president who was working hard to get things done — to deliver for the American people on infrastructure, on driving down the high price of life-saving prescription drugs, on bringing domestic manufacturing jobs back home to the United States of America,” Jeffries claimed. “It’s important to understand that President Biden inherited three different catastrophes on Day One: a democracy catastrophe, a public health catastrophe, and an economic catastrophe all at the same time and worked hard to put America in the strongest possible position moving forward.”
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) refused to acknowledge over the weekend President Joe Biden’s cognitive issues when pressed on why he endorsed Biden during the 2024 presidential election.
Jeffries made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” when asked about his remarks from February 2024 when he said Biden was “definitely the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump.”
“What do you say to Americans who believe you and other top Democrats misled them?” Welker asked.
“Well, Joe Biden was the incumbent president at the time. He was the candidate at the time. And I supported him at the time. And that was the right thing to do based on the incumbent president making the decision that he was going to run,” Jeffries said. “Obviously things changed in late June and early July. But I think what’s most important at this moment is not for us to look backwards, but to look forward, solve problems for hard-working American taxpayers, and get things done.”
Welker then pressed Jeffries about whether he had a responsibility “to be more forthcoming about what you had seen behind closed doors as it relates to President Biden.”
“What I saw behind closed doors was a president who was working hard to get things done — to deliver for the American people on infrastructure, on driving down the high price of life-saving prescription drugs, on bringing domestic manufacturing jobs back home to the United States of America,” Jeffries claimed. “It’s important to understand that President Biden inherited three different catastrophes on Day One: a democracy catastrophe, a public health catastrophe, and an economic catastrophe all at the same time and worked hard to put America in the strongest possible position moving forward.”
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