Rumors abound over President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the race, but one guy is trying to set the record straight.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) joined PBS News Hour’s Geoff Bennett to spin Biden’s decision to exit the race as one based on love of country.
Watch:
President Biden exiting the presidential race is one of the most “selfless acts” done by a top elected official in U.S. history, @ChrisCoons tells @GeoffRBennett.
“Because he loves our nation more than he loves his own personal ambition, he was willing to step aside,” he said. pic.twitter.com/TEoKeiiDoA
— PBS News (@NewsHour) July 25, 2024
“I think what really matters here is that we take a moment and reflect on Joe Biden’s incredible record. One of the most consequential presidents of my lifetime, maybe our entire history,” Coons gushed. “He heard from and took seriously, input from a very wide range of people, from senators and governors and mayors. But also just average people, friends, neighbors, people who worked for him, people he’d known for a long time. And he weighed his gun instinct, which is to get back up and fight – he is a person of grit and determination – and the input he was getting from pollsters, from average folks, from elected officials, suggesting that the path to the presidency, to reelection, was increasingly narrow.”
“Joe Biden is clear-eyed about the threat to democracy that Donald Trump poses. And so, ultimately, because he loves our nation more than he loves his personal ambition, he was willing to step aside. I think it was one of the most significant and most selfless from a senior elected official I’ve ever seen in American history,” the senator said.
But Chris Cillizza echoed most average Americans when he gave his own take on Biden’s decision.
“But, again, he *wasn’t* willing to step aside. Pelosi, Obama, Schumer and Jeffries had to push him,” he wrote on X. “Like, we were all there. We saw what happened. I don’t get the re-writing of history.”
And X users agreed:
It’s because what they did flies in the face of “Defending Our Democracy” to install a candidate chosen by party elites, and not their voters.
And most of the media happily will push that narrative too— Michael Cassidy ✝️ (@MichaelCassidy) July 25, 2024
Whole lot of history that’s being rewritten right now
— Andrew Tavani (@andrewtavani) July 25, 2024
I’m right there with you on the first part, Christopher. Joe was forced out.
But you know damn well why the Democrat/media complex is attempting to gaslight everyone on this. Dumping one duly elected candidate against his will in favor of another who received zero votes…
— AdamInHTownTX (Not a Neurologist) (@AdamInHTownTX) July 26, 2024
I applaud your honesty
— Mark HK (@mlehmhk) July 26, 2024
It’s just another bit of the endless stream of propaganda
— Matt Watson (@mattfwatson02) July 26, 2024
All part of the deal negotiated with Biden? Drop out. Stay hidden. We’ll paint you as the greatest president ever for it.
Media gets its marching orders from the White House.
— Andrea E (@AAC0519) July 26, 2024
More of this journalism Chris.
The mouthpiece needs to stop
— breakthecycle (@LtdGovtUSA) July 26, 2024
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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