And Congresswoman Madeline Dean of Pennsylvania joins us now.

Thanks so much for being with us.

Welcome to the news hour.

Pleased to be with you.

Thanks for having me.

I want to get you to respond to what we heard from your colleague Adam Smith that President Biden is an

ineffective messenger who should not have a place at the top of the ticket in this

election. Well let me begin by saying how much I admire and respect

Ranking Member Smith.

He has been such a critical guide to our Caucus on Armed Services and so many other top issues.

So I just have complete respect for what he said the way he's thought it through and the

communication he has done directly with the White House. I just happen to be in a different

place. What I am is that I am unapologetically supportive of the president, his record, his decency, and his integrity, and I, like Adam Smith, am very clear-eyed about the challenges in front of us.

So what I've been doing is talking to our leadership, talking to the administration, talking

to the campaign itself, but more importantly than all of that, I've been talking to my constituents.

So I'd be happy to tell you what my constituents say.

Well, before we get to that, in that same letter that the president wrote to congressional Democrats that I referenced earlier,

he said that Democrats have the record, the vision, and the fundamental commitment to America's freedoms and our democracy to win.

In your view, does President Biden have the capacity to make that argument in a way that

resonates with voters and win the election?

He's made that argument very, very effectively. He's the only person who did defeat Donald Trump.

He did that four years ago. So he has the right to say that, and he has the record to back it up.

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