During Wednesday’s MSNBC election postmortem, former Biden Administration spox Symone Sanders questioned whether a public coup of Democratic Party leader Joe Biden was a good idea.
She called the coup a “stabfest.”
“I do have an indictment of some of the strategy, and again, the people that said, ‘Joe Biden was the problem,'” Sanders said on MSNBC on Wednesday.
“I will just note that it is probably not the best idea that Democrats orchestrated a very public stabfest, a proverbial stabbing in the front of the sitting president of the United States of America, and then didn’t use him in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania,” she added.
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Over at CNN, anchor Kasie Hunt asked Senator and Harris campaign co-chair Chris Coons if there was any regret about how Joe Biden’s exit was handled.
“Does President Biden regret his decision to run for re-election? Do you, now knowing the result, regret that decision? Would Democrats have been better off with a competitive primary?” Hunt asked Coons.
“Look, I think it’s hard to look back and talk about what could have or should have been,” Coons began. “President Biden has a very strong legislative record of bipartisan accomplishments. Our economy is the strongest of any coming out of the pandemic and the American people felt sharply the economic damage that was the result of inflation.”
Coons lists a few of Biden’s accomplishments before saying “We are going to have to sit down as a Democratic Party and look at why that didn’t compel more folks to come out and vote for Democratic candidates.”
