'He has a record to run on': Rep. Crockett defends Biden amid Democratic concerns
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Turn now to Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Texas who has defended President |
| 0:06.2 | Biden amid concerns about his age and cause that he withdrawal from the race. |
| 0:11.2 | I spoke with her earlier today. |
| 0:13.0 | Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, welcome to the news hour. |
| 0:17.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:19.0 | When you hear your Democratic colleagues like Congressman Mike Quigley say that President Biden just has to |
| 0:24.3 | step down because he can't win or Congressman Adam Smith say the president is an |
| 0:29.2 | ineffective messenger as Smith said on this program last night, what's your reaction? |
| 0:34.6 | What's your response? |
| 0:35.6 | My reaction is that President Biden is the Democratic nominee and |
| 0:40.1 | nothing that they say is going to change that. |
| 0:42.7 | Listen, you know, when it comes down to it, |
| 0:45.1 | we have a democratic process. |
| 0:47.2 | And he was duly elected as our nominee. |
| 0:50.0 | He has said that he's not stepping down |
| 0:52.2 | and at the end of the day, he has a record to run on. |
| 0:55.0 | Now if he is an ineffective messenger to certain people then maybe they should get out and |
| 1:00.1 | spread the good news. |
| 1:01.3 | That's what I've been doing. |
| 1:02.4 | I've been working hard to make |
| 1:03.5 | sure that people understand why it matters to have this president in office, to make |
| 1:08.6 | sure that they understand that if we are still allowed to have history books, that he will go down in history is one of the most |
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