Sen. Schumer Confronted with Old Video Calling Biden’s Downfall ‘Right-Wing Propaganda’
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Sunday that they had not misled the American people The fall of President Biden or the ability to hold office despite the president dropping out of the race after being confronted with a February 2024 recording of him declaring that the debate 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. Schumer said, “His mental acuity is great. He’s fine. He’s as good as he’s been in years. All this right-wing propaganda that he his mental acuity has declined is wrong.”
After playing the clip, Welker asked Schumer what he would say to Americans who feel they have been misled by top Democrats. Schumer reportedly said the president he was supposed to drop from the race after the debate.
“We’re not. Let’s look at President Biden. He’s had an incredible record. The legislation that we’ve passed, one of the most significant pieces of legislation since Lyndon Johnson’s great society, putting in 235 justices, a record, and he’s a patriot. He’s a great guy, and when he stepped down, he did he did it himself because he thought it was better, not just for the Democratic Party, but for America. We should all applaud him,” Schumer said.
Senator Chuck Schumer insisted they did not mislead the American people about President Biden’s downfall during an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker. (Screenshot/NBC)
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Welker then asked Schumer if he believed Biden could have served a second term.
“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.
The “Meet the Press” panel also discussed Schumer’s interview, with MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend arguing that Schumer should have fired back at Welker much more harshly.
“The question on the table is, has the president made it all the way? And the answer is unequivocally yes,” Sanders insisted. “People can say you feel 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 a combination of two things. It’s his mental capacity and serving four more years is old, but they’re 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 a little bit more?”
President Joe Biden speaks at the 2024 White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, Dec. 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 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 Democrats were hurt by trying 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 shot back before Short said, “of course he does.”
“At least he can put a sentence together,” Sanders asserted, suggesting that President-elect Donald Trump can’t put a sentence together.
Short asked, “are you sure?” Sanders confidently said yes and noted that she had recently spoken with Biden.
