"It's Joe and Jill's decision. We all said that, like a mantra, as if we'd all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn't a choice that should have been left to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision."
"Look at what we are dealing with now as a country. The stakes were too high and the last thing that I will say is she herself said that all the people in the White House, she was in the worst position to make the case for Joe Biden to step aside because it would have seemed poisonously disloyal. And we know that Joe Biden demands loyalty and he gives loyalty."
Democrats faced criticism for making internal disagreements public during the 2024 presidential election rather than keeping conflicts in-house. Excerpts portray the decision to leave President Biden's re-election choice to him as reckless, arguing the stakes were too high for a purely personal decision. Tensions emerged between the vice presidency and Biden's close team, with rising poll numbers creating perceived problems. Concerns about loyalty and the political cost of urging a sitting president to step aside complicated internal discussions. The public airing of nomination and stamina controversies amplified perceptions of disloyalty and damaged party unity.
Read at www.mediaite.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]