During an airing of CNN’s The Arena, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer refused to directly answer whether he believed back in February 2024 that President Joe Biden was unfit to run for reelection, instead insisting, “we’re looking forward.” He offered nothing further, concluding with, “That’s it.”
Host Kasie Hunt posed the question bluntly: “You sat next to Biden in the Oval Office, February 27, 2024, just a handful of months before the president took that debate stage. And it was later reported that you and other Democratic leaders were talking before the debate about having a plan, you and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Barack Obama, I understand you later denied that that ever happened, but I am curious, I’m interested to know whether the man that you saw sitting there on that couch on that day, you were in there, you saw him up close and personal, did you really not have any idea that he was not fit to serve a second term?”
Schumer dodged the core of the question, pivoting instead to policy issues and threats looming over Congress. “Kasie, we’re looking forward. We have the largest Medicaid cut in front of us. We have the whole federal government at risk.”
Hunt pressed further, interjecting, “Right. But you’re facing all of this because you lost a presidential election. And is that not Joe Biden’s responsibility for deciding to run again?”
Again, Schumer repeated the same line: “We’re looking forward.”
Hunt tried one final time for a straight answer: “That’s it?”
Schumer didn’t budge: “That’s it.”
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