{"id":2392478,"date":"2025-01-19T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T22:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-claims-he-did-the-right-thing-in-initially-supporting-biden-in-2024-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T22:57:21","slug":"jeffries-claims-he-did-the-right-thing-in-initially-supporting-biden-in-2024-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jeffries-claims-he-did-the-right-thing-in-initially-supporting-biden-in-2024-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries claims he did \u2018the right thing\u2019 in initially supporting Biden in 2024 &#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\">32<\/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%2Fjeffries-claims-he-did-the-right-thing-in-initially-supporting-biden-in-2024-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=2392478&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>House\u2064 Minority Leader Hakeem jeffries (D-NY)\u200d defended his and other Democrats&#8217; support\u2064 for President Joe\u2064 Biden in the 2024 election, stating\u200c that they acted correctly when Biden was\u2062 still in the race. Jeffries addressed previous comments he made on the talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; where he called \u200cBiden &#8220;the\u200d strongest candidate&#8221; \u200dagainst Donald Trump.He responded to criticism from voters\u2064 who felt misled,explaining that at the time,Biden was \u2062indeed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-texas-supreme-court-justice-up-for-reelection-blasts-brainwashed-colleagues-in-leaked-audio\/\" title=\"Republican Texas Supreme Court justice criticizes &#039;brainwashed&#039; colleagues in leaked audio ahead of reelection\">candidate seeking reelection<\/a>. Jeffries\u2062 acknowledged that the situation changed in late\u2062 June and early July when\u200d Biden suspended his campaign, but he \u2063maintained that their initial support was justified.  <\/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\">Jeffries claims he did &lsquo;the right thing&rsquo; in initially supporting Biden in 2024<\/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_1938672\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) argued Sunday that he was doing &ldquo;the right thing&rdquo; when he and many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Democrats<\/a> supported President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a> in the 2024 election cycle before the president suspended his reelection bid a few months before Election Day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Jeffries was confronted by comments he made in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UsG3pAlrP1w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">a February 2024 appearance on <em>The View<\/em><\/a>, during which he claimed Biden was &ldquo;the strongest candidate&rdquo; to defeat then-presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>. When asked what he would say to voters who felt as if he and other Democrats &ldquo;misled&rdquo; them on Biden&rsquo;s ability to perform well in the 2024 election, Jeffries cited how Biden was the candidate &ldquo;at the time,&rdquo; as Biden made the decision to seek reelection.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Obviously, things changed in late June and early July, but I think what&rsquo;s most important at this moment is not for us to look backward, but to look forward,&rdquo; Jeffries said on NBC&rsquo;s <em>Meet the Press<\/em>. &ldquo;Solve problems for hardworking American taxpayers and get things done. That&rsquo;s what the American people want to happen. That&rsquo;s the message that I interpret from the November election, and that&rsquo;s the work that House Democrats are prepared to do to make sure we&rsquo;re improving the quality of life for working-class Americans, not the wealthy, the well off, or the well connected.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2762520&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=b8de8bb0cf9e6f24ec768e21a8cd6a0c\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3064997\/joe-biden-bows-out-of-2024-presidential-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Biden dropped his reelection bid on July 21<\/a>, less than a month after his first 2024 presidential debate against Trump, in which many were critical of Biden&rsquo;s performance. Biden, who became the oldest president to get elected into office in 2020 at 77 years old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3063712\/biden-blames-age-poor-debate-performance-not-a-young-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">suggested his age was to blame for his debate performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When Jeffries was pressed on if he felt any responsibility for not telling voters what he saw from Biden behind closed doors, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schiff-nadler-call-flynn-pardon-abuse-of-power\/\" title=\"Schiff, Nadler Call Flynn Pardon &#039;Abuse of Power&#039;\">minority leader<\/a> said that he saw Biden &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-dems-working-hard-to-convince-harris-to-go-to-al-smith-dinner-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"NY Dems \u2018working hard\u2019 to convince Harris to go to Al Smith dinner - Washington Examiner\">working hard&#038;rdquo<\/a>; for the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A report from last month indicated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3265662\/how-biden-aides-masked-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">staffers in the White House worked to keep Biden from the public eye<\/a> and even keep him from meeting with key Democrats. Former Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat up until May 2024, had concerns over Biden&rsquo;s stamina and suggested presidential staffers became avid gatekeepers to the president.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, Jeffries stated that the Democratic Party will conduct an election for the chair of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-national-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Democratic National Committee<\/a> &ldquo;at the end of this month.&rdquo; It comes as some, including <em>Washington Examiner&rsquo;s <\/em>Byron York, have suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3270653\/democrats-have-no-one-to-lead-opposition-to-trump-going-into-2025-byron-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Democrats currently have &ldquo;no one&rdquo; to lead the opposition<\/a> to President-elect Donald Trump and his vision for the nation.<\/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_1938672\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1938672\"}});<\/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>Jeffries defends his early support for Biden in 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2392479,"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\/2025\/01\/Jeffries-on-Biden-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4506,3620,13376,5894,32076],"class_list":["post-2392478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-4506","tag-biden","tag-jeffries","tag-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jeffries-on-Biden-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392478","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392482,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392478\/revisions\/2392482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}