{"id":2375000,"date":"2024-12-01T12:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T17:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-murphy-says-of-course-biden-should-have-left-race-sooner-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T12:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T17:19:44","slug":"chris-murphy-says-of-course-biden-should-have-left-race-sooner-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-murphy-says-of-course-biden-should-have-left-race-sooner-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Murphy says &#8216;of course&#8217; Biden should have left race sooner &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-murphy-says-of-course-biden-should-have-left-race-sooner-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2375000&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)\u2063 stated \u200bthat President Joe Biden should have exited the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">presidential race<\/a> earlier<\/a>, \u200breflecting \u200ca sentiment shared by several Democrats following\u200b Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s \u200celectoral loss. In \u2062an \u200cinterview on \u2064NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the \u200bPress,&#8221; Murphy suggested \u2062that it would have been beneficial for Biden to step down sooner,\u200d especially since he eventually made that decision. Biden withdrew from the \u200brace in July, allowing Harris to take over the\u200c campaign just 107 days before the election, which resulted in a loss to President-elect Donald Trump. Prominent\u2062 Democrats, including former \u200bHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have\u2063 expressed that Biden&#8217;s late departure\u200d may have hindered the party&#8217;s chances, indicating \u200cthat an \u2062earlier \u2062exit could have opened the door\u2062 for other candidates.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Chris Murphy says &lsquo;of course&rsquo; Biden should have left race sooner<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1895398\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog-posts\/chris-murphy-wins-reelection-connecticut-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Chris Murphy<\/a> (D-CT) said on Sunday that President Joe Biden should have dropped out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emmer-works-to-forge-closer-relationship-with-trump-after-speaker-fiasco\/\" title=\"Emmer aims to strengthen ties with Trump post-speaker incident\">presidential race sooner<\/a>, joining a list of Democrats to take that stance following Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3235554\/kamala-harris-escapes-hawaii-democrats-reel-2024-losses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kamala Harris&rsquo;s<\/a> presidential loss.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;In hindsight, knowing that he ultimately made a decision to stand down, yes, of course, it would have been better for President Biden to have made that decision earlier. I think there&rsquo;s no question about it,&rdquo; Murphy said on NBC News&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/video\/-of-course-biden-should-have-dropped-out-of-race-sooner-democratic-sen-chris-murphy-says-225872965755\"><em>Meet the Press<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3220326\/five-democrats-prime-position-face-party-2028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>FIVE DEMOCRATS IN PRIME POSITION TO BE FACE OF THE PARTY IN 2028<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden dropped out of the race in July, and Harris took over the campaign with just 107 days left in the presidential race. She ultimately could not reach enough voters and lost the presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats blamed the loss on Biden because he did not leave the presidential race sooner. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had previously lamented Biden not dropping out sooner. Last month, in a <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/08\/us\/politics\/pelosi-harris-biden-open-primary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">interview<\/a>, Pelosi said, &ldquo;Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3220424\/how-democrats-can-adjust-to-avoid-future-defeats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>DEMOCRATS WEIGH CHANGE IN STRATEGY TO AVOID MIDTERM AND 2028 DEFEATS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She added, &ldquo;The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During his Sunday interview, Murphy said Democrats should have emphasized the administration&rsquo;s efforts to take on corporate power. Under the Biden administration, the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have brought a number of antitrust lawsuits against big corporations such as Amazon, Meta, and Live Nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some of the most important things that Joe Biden did were taking on the big corporations, going after their monopoly power, helping consumers with some of the really egregious fees and gimmicks that those companies use to hurt us,&rdquo; Murphy said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &ldquo;I wish the Biden campaign, and the Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/White-House\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> and the Harris campaign talked more about what they did to break up corporate power.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1895398\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1895398\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Murphy believes Biden should have exited the race earlier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3511,"featured_media":2375001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AP24255010580813.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32431,3620,36802,33017,32076],"class_list":["post-2375000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-2024-election","tag-biden","tag-chris-murphy","tag-political-analysis","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/AP24255010580813.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2375004,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375000\/revisions\/2375004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2375001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}