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Rep. Jim Clyburn claimed “still” believes former President Joe Biden could’ve served out another four years as president, despite mounting evidence of cognitive decline. “Yes, I thought that back then. I still think that, but I don’t know that,” Clyburn told CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday when asked if Biden could’ve served out another term that he would’ve completed at age 86. Still, Clyburn, 84, who is widely credited with rescuing Biden’s then-flailing presidential bid in 2020, admitted that Biden’s disastrous debate performance against President Trump in June of last year had him second-guessing that belief. “I watched that...

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said that Democrats have a good message, “The problem we’ve got, honestly, is that we have to depend upon the media to deliver it.” And “when you’ve got people saying we’re not going to fact-check, we’re not going to worry about whether or not you’re telling the truth and just let the reports go out there. That’s what’s killing us as Democrats, because we don’t have a stomach for just lying.” Clyburn stated, “I think the message that’s coming from the Democratic Party is a good message. The...

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Lindy Li about Jill Biden’s strong push for Joe Biden to remain in office despite his cognitive decline; Hunter Biden’s involvement in high-level White House meetings while Biden was incapacitated; the Democratic Party’s panic after Trump’s assassination attempt and the financial collapse of Biden’s campaign post-debate; Rep. James Clyburn’s pivotal influence in Biden’s presidency and Kamala Harris’s rise; behind-the-scenes tensions between Team Biden and Team Harris; last-minute secrecy surrounding Biden’s resignation decision; the hidden power of unelected advisors running the administration; and much more.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said Gen. CQ Brown was removed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff due to his race and responded to pushback that other officials who are white were dismissed by stating that Brown got called “woke” and “DEI” and “they are substituting these acronyms for the n-word. So, why would you apply the term woke to Gen. Brown? What does that mean?”Clyburn began by saying,” I believe that everybody knows what an outstanding soldier Gen. Brown is and has been, for many, many years. He has a...

As President Biden prepares to vacate the White House accolades are pouring in for his performance. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) asserted "he will go down as the greatest president we ever had. You know, I was the one who secured the Democratic nomination for him in 2020. That was one of the greatest accomplishments of my career. I think President Biden himself would admit he isn't a great orator, but he sure was a great doer of things while in office." "He did the big things that Trump would never have done," the Congressman pointed out. "He saved the nation...

Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn believes Joe Biden will go down as one of the greatest presidents in American history. In an interview on MSNBC’s Chris Jansing Reports, the South Carolina congressman said that history will judge Biden kindly. “Given everything that was in place when he took office, Covid the economic challenges, do you think that this was in some ways inevitable?” Jansing asked. ”And how do you think history will judge this presidency?” Clyburn responded: I think that he will go down as one of the greatest presidents we ever had. I think the same thing about Jimmy...

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday... Biden, 82, “wrestled” with the decision to pardon his son for any and all crimes he committed between 2014 and 2024 — but it was a visit by Clyburn, 84, that tipped the scales and led the president to go back on his repeated promises not to do so.

Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed Friday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that the country was in danger of Jim Crow laws returning because voters did not prioritize democracy. Host Dana Bash said, “I want to switch gears to something that former President Obama said. He made I believe his first comments since the election. He said this last night. I want you to take a listen.” Thursday in Chicago, former President Barack Obama said, “Talk of bridging our differences when the country and the world seemed so bitterly divided felt like an academic exercise, it felt farfetched, even naive. Especially since...

On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) stated that he has told members of President Joe Biden’s staff that the President ought to preemptively pardon President-Elect Donald Trump and Liz Cheney, Jack Smith, and Dr. Anthony Fauci because “we are trying to run a government on behalf of all the people of this country, and if we spend all of our time going forward pursuing Trump or Trump pursuing” those people, it would be detrimental and the air needs to be cleared. Host Mike Viqueira asked, “Have you specifically urged President Biden to pardon — preemptively...

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto Live,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said that the country is seeing another Hitler with President-Elect Donald Trump. While discussing the 2024 elections, Clyburn said that the country has swung back and forth between left and right over the years, and, at the moment, is swinging to the right, “I hope it’s not going as far right as that which happened in Germany in the 1930s, which, you may remember, I forewarned way back in 2018 that I saw this coming. I’ve studied history all of my life. … And I can...

During an interview with CBS on Thursday, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) declared that “I don’t believe that Joe Biden has been anything but successful as a president,” but many people didn’t feel his “great” economy and wondered if they were “feeling that way because of reality or were they feeling that way because of disinformation or misinformation?” Clyburn said, “I don’t believe that Joe Biden has been anything but successful as a president, and the record is clear. And that’s what I meant when I said people react to their feelings and sometimes what the record is is of little...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) argued that one problem Democrats had in the 2024 campaign is “a lot of things that people attributed to Donald Trump really belong to Joe Biden. And I don’t think we did a good enough job of delineating that for the voting public,” but they will do so in the event that Democrats are the minority party in the House. Clyburn said that if Democrats are in the minority in the House and Trump’s “agenda is anything akin to what his campaign was all about, we are going...

Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) said Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris should hold more town hall meetings to interact with voters. Host Jake Tapper said, “Do you think that she should be doing more rallies? I covered Obama in 2008, as you might remember, I would often interview you when I was covering that campaign and at this point, she’s doing two rallies today. But generally speaking, comparing her rally schedule in October to his rallies schedule in October 2008 he did more. Now, maybe we’re in a new era, maybe 2024 you...

Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he was concerned that black men will vote for former President Donald Trump. Host Dana Bash said, “You just heard Donald Trump making his appeal to black men quite explicit your friend, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, who you campaigned with in Michigan says that the message she’s hearing from black man is quote, ‘Democrats take us for granted, Donald Trump talks to us directly.’ Are you concerned about black men voting for Donald Trump or staying home?”

On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said that he has “no idea” how to explain why 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t visited the border in three years, but “she went to the countries of origin to try and find out exactly how we could tackle this problem from the very origin of it rather than hang out at the border.” And “I don’t know that visiting the border is all you need to do to tackle this problem.” Co-host Danny Freeman asked, “This is Harris’ first visit to the border as...

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) went on CNN's "The Lead" and disagreed with Jake Tapper's assumption that "Vice-President Harris needs to let people know where she stands on specific policies and how her policies will affect them," saying "I advised both Harris and Walz to avoid doing anymore interviews. Their joy and unity campaign has already gotten them the lead in the polls." "You know, FDR, the greatest Democrat of all-time, ran on a similarly vague campaign with a catchy show tune 'Happy Days Are Here Again' and a non-specific 'new deal' and won in a landslide," Clyburn pointed out. "Why...

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said that “everybody” accused 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris of being “too far to the right of center” when she ran for president the last time, but she’s really “right where the vast majority of the American people are.” Clyburn said, “[I]t’s kind of interesting, if you go back and look at her candidacy, back in 2019, before she dropped out of that race, everybody was saying at the time that she was too far to the right of center. Then, all of a sudden,...

Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Vice President Kamala Harris has a broad base of support because “progressives love her, conservatives respect her.” Host Nicolle Wallace said, “We compare her to President Obama, whose campaign is similar in terms of the enthusiasm, but ideologically, she’s already rallied a much wider coalition. Her enthusiast supporters, include Bernie Sanders and Dick Cheney. I wonder if you can speak to the broadness, the broad base of support.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) stated that while 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris should do town hall-type discussions, but with one-on-one media interviews, “some times, you drill down into a question until there’s a word that’s uttered that can be used in a negative way.” Host Jake Tapper asked, “One thing we continue to hear from Democrats, supporters of Vice President Harris, is that she still needs to fill in some of the blanks more, let people know where she stands on specific policies and how her policies will affect them....

Representative James Clyburn (D-SC) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that President Joe Biden will be admired for how civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. is looked at. Clyburn said, “COVID-19 opened up some fault lines in this country, and we are about repairing them. That’s what Joe Biden did. And I think that people are going to look at Joe Biden much the way we look at Martin Luther King, Jr. when he said in his speech, ‘It does not matter how long you live, but how well you live.’ And I say the same thing about Joe...