Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader relegated to minority status, put on his best spin routine during an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, vehemently denying accusations that his party duped the public about Joe Biden’s seeming cognitive decline.
Despite growing whispers from presidential insiders—whispers now blaring in media headlines—that Biden genuinely believes he could have snagged a win in the 2024 election, Schumer stuck to the script, dutifully defending the “legacy” of a president whose tenure ended in a slow-motion political train wreck.
In a rare moment of candor from the DC press corps, moderator Kristen Welker finally shattered the protective bubble. Over nine minutes into the interview, she shows Schumer a clip of him defending Biden’s mental state earlier last year.
Schumer’s response? Doubling down.
From the exchange above:
“Look, we didn’t,” Schumer responded. “Let’s look at President Biden. He’s had an amazing record. The legislation we passed, one of the most significant groups of legislation since the New Deal, since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Putting in 235 judges – a record.”“He’s a patriot. He’s a great guy,” the top Senate Democrat went on. “And when he stepped down, he did it on his own because he thought it was better, not only for the Democratic Party, but for America. We should all salute him.”
But when pressed for the follow-up, the Senator “refuses to speculate.”
For a party grappling with the fallout of its own blind ambition, the question isn’t whether Americans feel misled by Schumer and company—it’s how long they’ll tolerate a political machine that refuses to admit its failures. As the lame-duck era of Joe Biden continues to haunt the Democratic narrative, the party’s leaders may find themselves answering for more than just a single presidency. The real legacy in question is their own.
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