Democrats Who Championed Biden’s Re-election Bid Now Seek Atonement

The New York Times ^ | May 16, 2025, 3:57 p.m. ET | Reid J. Epstein and Lisa Lerer

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With their party facing record low approval ratings, many top Democrats are trying to reposition themselves from Biden boosters to truth-tellers of what really happened in 2024.

In February 2024, when quizzed on President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s ability to communicate his re-election message, Senator Chris Murphy, the Connecticut Democrat, quickly vouched for him.

“I know that he is ready for this campaign,” he told CBS News. “I have seen how effective he has been up close and personal.”

But five months into 2025, Mr. Murphy is on the leading edge of top Democrats aiming to Etch A Sketch away their past endorsements of Mr. Biden’s acuity. He told Politico this week that he had “no doubt” Mr. Biden suffered cognitive decline while in office.

Mr. Murphy, who declined to be interviewed for this article, is not alone in trying to reposition himself from a top Biden surrogate who sat on the campaign’s national advisory board to a truth-teller about what really happened in the 2024 campaign. His pivot is illustrative of a wide swath of the party that is hoping to atone for having fallen lock-step behind Mr. Biden.

Representative Ro Khanna of California, another Biden advisory board member who traveled the country as a surrogate to progressives, said this week that it was “obvious now” that Mr. Biden “was not in a condition to run for re-election.”

Mr. Khanna had vouched for Mr. Biden up until the president ended his campaign. A speech in Detroit that proved to be Mr. Biden’s last as a candidate “broke through” the political noise, Mr. Khanna said five days before Mr. Biden dropped out.

In an interview Friday, Mr. Khanna said he “was a surrogate...”

[God luvs America]

LOL- just like all of those who asked for “Covid Amnesty” a year ago- remember them???

[Right_Wing_Madman]

[TornadoAlley3]

Too late. Resign if you want redemption.

[Fungi]

Nothing this left wing rag publishes is objective news, it is leftist propaganda.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

reposition themselves as truth-tellers

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

What will be next?

"I identify as a truth-teller" while I lie profusely?

"Everything I say is fake, but accurate?"

[TStro]

Garth Brooks is begging to get his audience back too.
Never. Go woke go broke. Whatever happened to his wife Sandy when he took up with Trisha?
Die broke and lonely Garth.

[Karliner]

What about the whole Kamala coup? They’re so deep in their own sh*t

[rllngrk33]

If democRats want to atone for their sins, may I suggest that they emulate the Yakuza and cut off one of their fingers and then commit hari kiri.

[No name given]

And only leftist propaganda.

[No name given]

Vaguely.

[Bonemaker]

Denied.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[DAC21]

“Runs circles around his staff”

[God luvs America]

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134429414/should-we-declare-a-pandemic-amnesty

[mcenedo]

I find it laughable that the Slime is now questioning some the 'Rat liars.

The NYSlime was a leading Biden cheerleader and did a lot more to promote senile Joe's reelection campaign. than Chris Murphy.

Has the Slime ever conceded that Hunter's laptop was real and the Greene memo was a fake?

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Has the Slime ever conceded that Hunter's laptop was real and the Greene memo was a fake?,/i>

Have they ever returned the Pulitzer Prize they received for their fraudulent Russiagate coverage that referenced imaginary anonymous sources?

[gildafarrell]

Too little too late. No atonement offered.

[KevinB]

There ain`t no shame in their game.

[BobL]

Like it or not, one can only ADMIRE the discipline and commitment to winning shown by the Democrats in defending a person they knew to be brain-dead, simply because his victory would, once and for all, allow them (the Democrats) to set up the Fascist state that they’ve always dreamed of...including the doing-away with us Conservatives, once and for all.