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Young Dems blame Biden and their own party for losing in 2024 as they distance themselves from the old-guard ('We made a mistake')
Fox News ^ | 5/17/25 | Deirdre Heavey

Posted on 05/22/2025 1:14:54 AM PDT by Libloather

The Democratic Party is finally saying the quiet part out loud: "Biden should not have run again."

Revelations about President Joe Biden's cognitive decline and his administration's alleged cover-up have returned to the national conversation ahead of next week's release of CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios political correspondent Alex Thompson's book, "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again."

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., a 2024 presidential campaign surrogate for President Joe Biden, and considered a potential 2028 presidential candidate, acknowledged on Wednesday that Biden should not have run for a second term.

And Beto O'Rourke, one of Biden's 2020 Democratic primary competitors and the former congressman from Texas, joined the criticism this week, accusing Biden's re-election campaign of failing future generations of Americans.

When pressed by Martha MacCallum on "The Story" on Wednesday about campaigning for Biden in 2024, Khanna said he hadn't had the full picture of Biden's health and mental acuity ahead of his disastrous debate performance, but he admitted, "We should be honest as a party that we made a mistake."

"I do think it's important that, given what has come out, that we take accountability," Khanna said. "Obviously, he should not have run," Khanna said.

Responding to a series of interview clips from early 2024, when Khanna affirmed Biden's intention to run for re-election and described the president as "fully coherent," Khanna said he had been telling the truth.

"Of course, I didn't have the full picture," Khanna added.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: 2024; brandon; democrats; losing

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Just awful.
1 posted on 05/22/2025 1:14:54 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

to paraphrase Scarborough, ‘best b*llsh*t ever’.

He knew, they knew, the press knew - they just couldn’t pull it off.


2 posted on 05/22/2025 1:27:02 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Libloather

Fully fascism is coming in the Democrat party. The old guard is dying and the new guard is just waiting.


3 posted on 05/22/2025 1:30:39 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented a pen that can write underwater. And other words. )
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To: Libloather

So it’s completely the old man’s fault but the woman of color who actually ran and lost gets a pass. Interesting logic. The person who is most to blame for the democrat loss is Donald J. Trump.


4 posted on 05/22/2025 1:53:15 AM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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To: Libloather; All

“...a mistake...”?

Only one???????????


5 posted on 05/22/2025 2:05:07 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Libloather

Not Marxist or fascist enough.


6 posted on 05/22/2025 2:40:41 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: SMARTY

Made a mistake and doubled down, twice. That is not a mistake. It would be called stupid.


7 posted on 05/22/2025 2:46:11 AM PDT by exnavy (See article IV section 4 of our constitution.)
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To: Libloather

The assumption was that thanks to felony convictions, DJT would slide hard in the polls by early summer ‘24.

When that didn’t happen, they tried to assassinate him.

Even FJB could beat a dead man last November.

Shortly after taking the oath to his second term President Vegetable was to resign due to poor health and let Obama start his fourth term.

Didn’t work out that way.


8 posted on 05/22/2025 3:08:13 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Libloather

The Democrats are the Party of Hate.

The Trump administration needs to destroy it by first identifying the traitors in the Biden White House who were abusing that feeble old man to steal the country. They need to be dragged into court and then executed if appropriate.


9 posted on 05/22/2025 3:16:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: Libloather

Frankly, I was wondering since he announced, why was this “sympathetic old gentleman with poor memory” running for re-election?

Who told him, he can do it?

If he just declared that he is not running again in 2023, he could retire with some dignity, and maybe they could pull this cover up on us successfully.


10 posted on 05/22/2025 3:19:53 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Libloather

Well, to really be honest they would have to admit that it wasn’t a mistake but rather an intentional act of deception committed against the country.

And if they really, really wanted to be honest they would admit that the Democrat party still has a deeply embedded capacity for deception and is likely to do the same or worse in the future.

And if they wanted to get down to the real nitty gritty, they’d admit that they’re the bad guys and need to be completely defeated and torn out by the roots.


11 posted on 05/22/2025 3:28:26 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Libloather

We means me; stupid.


12 posted on 05/22/2025 3:49:12 AM PDT by Recompennation
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To: Libloather

The democrat party IS the mistake.


13 posted on 05/22/2025 4:58:33 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Jonty30

“Fully fascism is coming in the Democrat party.“

There was an episode of Dragnet on either Wednesday or Thursday AM wherein Friday and co doing some community relations gig were being reamed out by the Dr. Johnny Fever actor as fascistic oppressors. His rants sounded like they were written and recorded yesterday by any member of the democrat party. The show was shot in 1968…


14 posted on 05/22/2025 6:28:41 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: Libloather

“saying the quiet part out loud”

Oh, to get through just an hour without hearing that already old and annoying saying that is oh so very trendy.


15 posted on 05/22/2025 7:18:01 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Libloather

The real problem is that the young guard is even dumber. AOC and David hogg come to mind.


16 posted on 05/22/2025 7:33:57 AM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Jonty30

Biden is out, Pelosi is next, then Schumer. All these young Marxist democrats will sink the party.


17 posted on 05/22/2025 8:03:07 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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