Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume is having a hard time swallowing President Biden’s malarky concerning his sudden epiphany that he needed to drop out of the 2024 presidential race for the good of “democracy.”

Wednesday night, President Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office in an 11-minute speech that came off as a political ad for Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris. It’s the first time he has spoken publicly since announcing that he will end his campaign and pass the torch to his DEI vice president. The Left and media are already spewing out copious amounts of propaganda on Harris and are attempting to scrub her political history while gaslighting American voters into oblivion.

Hume didn’t quite understand Biden’s fractured logic for bowing out of the presidential race.

“To hear the president tell it, he was fine with running for re-election, thought he could win the race and serve for four more years until sometime between Saturday night and Sunday morning, when it dawned on him, apparently, that it was time for a new generation of leaders,” Hume remarked.

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“Politico reported that Biden told his senior aides early Saturday his campaign was moving ‘full steam ahead’ despite growing calls from members of his party to step aside after a disastrous performance at the CNN Presidential Debate in Atlanta,” Fox News reported. “However, later that evening, the president appeared to change his mind about the direction of his re-election bid after speaking with two of his closest aides.”

A letter that was not on White House letterhead was posted on X under Biden’s account on Sunday afternoon announcing that he would “stand down” from the 2024 race.

In the address that the president made to the nation, he declared that it was time to “pass the torch to a new generation.”

“Biden reflected on his administration’s successes throughout the past three years but argued he wouldn’t be seeking re-election because the ‘defense of democracy’ is ‘more important than any title,'” Fox News noted.

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“There was enough mention of democracy and the sacredness of it to suggest that it was more than a little political motivation in his speech since democracy and the salvation of it has been such a theme of his and Kamala Harris’s election program,” Hume commented to Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum concerning Biden’s brief address. “But it was quite a conversion overnight, it seems if you believe it. I’m not sure I do.”

“I think when we all look back on this in the fullness of time and perhaps with a better explanation of exactly the decision-making process the president went through, it will be seen as inevitable once that debate happened that he would have to step aside and that someone else would have to come forward,” he predicted.

Joe Biden didn’t ’pass the torch’ to Kamala Harris as he so disingenuously claimed in his sad, uninspiring address tonight. He had his presidency & career torched by Democrat arsonists Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Clooney etc. pic.twitter.com/b2KjG3WnW5

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 25, 2024

“The Five” co-host Dana Perino went so far as to lament that the speech felt like a “mini State of the Union.” She intimated that it did nothing to assure her that Biden is capable of serving out the rest of his term as president.

“It was like something he could have given in January of 2025. It rang hollow for me,” she stated. “It did not answer any of those questions, and I do not think that it helps Kamala Harris as she tries to make some sort of a break with him as she tries to get this nomination and try to beat Donald Trump.”

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