NBC News anchor confronts top Democrat on whether he had a ‘responsibility to be more open’ about Biden
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., confronted an old recording of himself during an interview Sunday in which he declared President Biden the best candidate to run against President-elect Donald Trump.
“What do you say to Americans who believe they have been misled by you and other top Democrats?” NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Jeffires after playing a clip of herself from February 2024 on “The View,” saying Biden was “definitely the strongest candidate” to run against the now-president-elect.
“Well, Joe Biden was the sitting president at the time. He was the candidate at the time, and I was supporting him at the time, and it was the right thing to do, based on the sitting president’s decision to run.” , Jeffries said, responding to the clip.
NBC’s Kristen Welker questioned House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries about whether he should have been more forthcoming about President Biden’s abilities. (Screenshot/NBC/MeetTHePress)
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Jeffries added that he wants to look forward, not back, and focus on helping Americans after Trump’s victory.
Welker continued: “Do you believe you had a responsibility to be more open about what you saw 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 enable the American people on infrastructure, on lowering the high cost of life-saving prescription drugs, on bringing domestic manufacturing jobs back home to the United States States. America,” Jeffries replied.
NBC News runs a similar one confronted Senator Chuck Schumer, DN.Y., with a video in which he insists that concerns about Biden’s mental acuity are “right-wing propaganda.”
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“His mental acuity is great. He’s fine. He’s as good as he’s been in years. All this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong,” Schumer said in February 2024.
Asked what he would say to Americans who think they’ve been misled by top Democrats, Schumer said: “We haven’t. Let’s look at President Biden. He’s had an incredible record. The legislation that we’ve passed is one of the most significant pieces of legislation since Lyndon Johnson’s big deal, putting 235 judge, a record, and he is a patriot.”
Welker then asked Schumer if he believed Biden could have served a second term.
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“Well, I’m not going to speculate. Like I said, I think his record is stellar and he’s going to go down in history as a truly outstanding president,” Schumer replied.
