Democrats finally yell the quiet part: “Biden shouldn't have run again.”
Revelation about President Joe Biden's cognitive decline and his administration's cover-up has returned to national conversation ahead of next week's release of the book “Original Singh: President Biden's Decline and His Catastrophic Choice” by CNN anchor Jake Tupper and Axios' political correspondent Alex Thompson.
Representative Locanna, D-Calif, who represent President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, was considered the presidential candidate for 2028, and Biden confirmed on Wednesday that he should not run for a second term.
And Beto O'Rourke, one of Biden's 2020 Democrats and one of Texas' former lawmakers, joined in this week in criticism, denounced Biden's reelection campaign for the failure of a future generation of Americans.
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Former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke (left) and potential 2028 presidential candidate Ro Kanna said President Joe Biden should not run for reelection in 2024. (Getty Images)
When pushed onto Martha McCollum on “Story” on Wednesday about Biden's 2024 campaign, Kanna said she didn't have a full picture of Biden's health and mental vision ahead of his disastrous debate performance, but he admitted that “we should be honest as a party that made a mistake.”
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“I think it's important to be accountable given what's coming out,” Kanna said. “Obviously he shouldn't run,” Kanna said.
In response to a series of interview clips from early 2024, Kanna confirmed Biden's intentions to run for reelection and described the president as “completely consistent,” Kanna said he was telling the truth.
“Of course I didn't have the big picture,” Kanna added.
Kanna was Biden's campaign representative in 2024 and later dropped out of the race. (Anna Money Maker/Getty Images)
O'Rourke called Khanna's call for democratic accountability on “Pod Save America” this week, Biden's decision to run for reelection in 2024 “a terrible mistake.”
“Just to be clear: Biden shouldn't have run again, and to be even more clear: he failed this country with the most important work he had,” O'Rourke said.
“In fact, the whole rationale for his presidency was the first and for the reasoning that he tried to sell us for his attempt to run for reelection: “Only I can stop Donald Trump.” And he failed to do it, and it's a generation that may very well lose not just you and me, but our children and grandchildren, and the best country this world has ever known,” Orke said.
Former US Congressman Beto O'Rourke will speak to attendees during the “Our Battle, Our Future” rally at the Millennium Bowling Alley held in Austin, Texas on October 2, 2024. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
An excerpt from the book Tapper and Thompson released by Axios this week revealed that Biden's decline in health “has been internally debated about putting the president in a wheelchair, but he couldn't do so until after the election.”
Khanna and O'Rourke agreed in hindsight that Democrats should have an opportunity to launch their own presidential bid. And now that President Donald Trump has returned to the White House, they said it's important to take accountability in 2024 as potential areas of Democratic candidates in 2028 are pondering their presidential campaign.
“Obviously there should have been an open primary, and I don’t think it’s that difficult for Democrats to be straightforward about what he shouldn’t run.
O'Rourke said America's future could be in balance because of the decision that Biden and those around him ran for reelection, not because the greatest talent the Democrats can convene, but because they ran for reelection.
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. was President Joe Biden's campaign agent in 2024. (Getty Images)
The 52-year-old 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said Democrat Biden's failures create credibility issues.
“I think the credibility issues will continue until Democrats say, 'We f–up and made a terrible mistake,'” O'Rourke said.
Despite O'Rourke's comments this week, he told supporters via voting rights groups last February, “Donald Trump is the single biggest threat to our democracy. Our best opportunity to beat him is to support Joe Biden in this election.”
“Amy and I voted for him in the Texas primary and we look forward to voting for him again in November,” he added. “This president has done an extraordinary job of improving our economy, facing the climate crisis, reducing childhood poverty and dodging attacks that have increased Donald Trump and the Republican Party's most basic liberty.”
Former national security adviser Jake Sullivan defended the former boss this week, admitting that Biden's tragic debate performance was shocking. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Another young Democrat and Biden's former national security adviser Jake Sullivan continued to defend the former boss at the Politico security summit on Thursday, denying allegations that Biden had forgotten his name and defending the leader as commander.
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“What happened in that discussion was shocking to me,” Sullivan admitted. “I think that was a shock to everyone.”
A Biden spokesperson did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Paul Steinhauser of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
