"A ticket we can win on": Jeffries reverses course on Biden ouster calls [View all]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — the top Democrat in the House — backed the Biden-Harris presidential ticket in a radio interview, publicly reversing position from his private stance that Biden ought to exit the race.
“President Biden, as I've said repeatedly, is our nominee,” Jeffries said in an interview with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer. “He is one of the most accomplished American presidents in our history and he has the vision, I believe the ability, the capacity, and the track record to make a case to the American people that will result in us being successful in November.”
Jeffries, who privately urged Biden to step aside earlier this week citing polling challenges, has since backed down.
“The ticket that exists right now is a ticket that we can win on,” the minority leader told Lehrer. “There, of course, is work to be done. And that, in fact, is the case because we are an evenly divided country.”
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