Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Sunday that they have not misled Americans The decline of President Biden or the ability to serve despite the president withdrawing from the race after being confronted with a February 2024 clip in which he declared the debate over Biden’s health was “right-wing propaganda.”
Kristen Welker of NBC News confronted the senator with a clip of Schumer talking about Biden on February 13, 2024. Schumer said, “His mental acuity is great. It’s fine. It’s just as good as it’s been over the years. propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.”
After playing the clip, Welker asked Schumer what he would tell Americans who think they have been misled by top Democrats. Schumer reportedly said so the president he needed to drop out of the race after the debate.
‘We didn’t do that. Let’s look at President Biden. He has a great track record. The legislation we passed is one of the most important pieces of legislation since Lyndon Johnson’s great society, with 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, for America. We should all salute him,” Schumer said.
Senator Chuck Schumer insisted they have not misled 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. Like I said, I think his record is great, and he will go down in history as a truly outstanding president,” Schumer responded.
The “Meet the Press” panel also discussed the Schumer interview, and MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend argued that Schumer should have taken much tougher action against Welker.
“The question on the table is: Is the president all the way there? And the answer is unequivocally yes,” Sanders insisted. “People may say you feel like President Biden might be a little too old to do the job, but he’s doing the job, his mental acuity is there. So I think there’s a convergence of two things. It’s his mental capacity. and serving another four years his age, but those are two separate things in my opinion, and these people who have known Joe Biden all their lives and I’ve known President Biden, and it’s like, can you all defend me? little more?”
President Joe Biden speaks at 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 leaving in a way that I think is a good reflection of his party, and Democrats are deeply unhappy about it, and frankly they should be,” Martin said.
Marc Short, who previously worked for Vice President Mike Pence, said it hurt Democrats to tell Americans what they saw with their own eyes during Biden’s debate Trump.
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“But it’s not true that the president doesn’t have mental acuity,” Sanders shot back before Short said, “Of course he does.”
“He can at least put a sentence together,” Sanders argued, suggesting that President-elect Donald Trump could not put a sentence together.
Short asked, “Are you sure?” Sanders confidently said yes, noting that she recently spoke with Biden.
