Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who in February decried the concept President Joe Biden was cognitively impaired as “right-wing propaganda,” is denying that he and different prime Democrats ever misled the general public in regards to the president’s psychological acuity.
Throughout an look Sunday on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press,” anchor Kristen Welker performed a clip from Feb. 13 during which Schumer assured reporters that he talks to Biden frequently and that “this right-wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong.”
That assurance got here mere months earlier than Biden’s catastrophic debate in opposition to his then-GOP opponent, President-elect Donald Trump, and earlier than he confused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a NATO summit occasion.
Biden in the end exited the race in July, just for his substitute nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, to lose the election. When requested Sunday what he’d inform voters who really feel Schumer misled them about Biden’s psychological acuity, he argued boldly: “Look, we didn’t.”
“And let’s look at President Biden,” Schumer advised Welker. “He’s had an amazing record, the legislation we passed, one of the most significant groups of legislation since [former President] Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, putting in 235 judges — a record.”
“And he’s a patriot,” he continued. “He’s a great guy. And when he stepped down he did it on his own, because he thought it was better, not only for the Democratic Party, [but also] for America. We should all salute him. We should all salute him.”
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Dissatisfied with the reply, which arguably rejected the premise of the query outright and merely chronicled Biden’s legislative report, Welker adopted up by asking if Schumer nonetheless believes Biden may’ve served one other time period had he stayed within the race and gained.
“Well, I’m not going to speculate,” he advised Welker, who had notably solely requested about his personal previous declare that Biden’s decline was insidiously partisan propaganda. “As I said, I think his record is a stellar one, and he’ll go down in history as a really outstanding president.”
Schumer was reelected final month for his fifth time period as senate majority chief and endorsed Ben Wikler on Thursday to steer the Democratic Nationwide Committee. Whether or not the get together will be taught from their second loss in opposition to Trump is unclear, however for some, is already unlikely.
