A clip of Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren struggling to defend former President Joe Biden‘s mental fitness during a recent podcast appearance has gone viral among conservative critics.
Warren, 75, appeared on the Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso podcast on Sunday (April 20) and was asked by the host if she regretted publicly claiming that Biden, 82, “had a sharpness to him” prior to his decision to end his reelection campaign last July.
“I said what I believed to be true,” Warren said.
“You think he was as sharp as you?” Fragoso responded.
“I said I had not seen decline,” Warren said after a long pause. “And I hadn’t at that point.”
“Look, he was sharp. He was on his feet. I saw him… live event,” Warren added. “I had meetings with him a couple of times…”
“Senator, ‘on his feet’ is not praise,” Fragoso retorted. “‘He can speak in sentences’ is not praise.”
“Fair enough,” Warren responded with a seemingly soft laugh.
Former Democratic vide presidential candidate Tim Walz recently admitted that his party’s failure to acknowledge former President Joe Biden‘s decline hurt its chances in the 2024 election.
“He made that decision,” Walz said of Biden continuing to serve before ultimately ending his re-election campaign less than four months prior to the 2024 presidential election during an interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who recently wrote a book about Biden’s decline, during a live broadcast of State of the Union on April 6.
Walz was among the high profile Democrats to have attempted to downplay Biden’s shortcomings after a disastrous performance in the first presidential debate last June.
“Yes, he’s fit for office,” Walz told reporters at the time via the New York Post.
“None of us are denying Thursday night was a bad performance,” he added. “It was a bad get, if you will on that. But it doesn’t impact what I believe — he’s delivering.”
Biden was the oldest president in American history with Trump, 78, his predecessor and successor, later becoming the oldest candidate to be elected in November.
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