{"id":2441496,"date":"2025-06-01T16:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warnock-uninterested-in-biden-2024-postmortem-after-being-named-in-tapper-book-its-over-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T20:18:31","slug":"warnock-uninterested-in-biden-2024-postmortem-after-being-named-in-tapper-book-its-over-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warnock-uninterested-in-biden-2024-postmortem-after-being-named-in-tapper-book-its-over-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Warnock uninterested in Biden 2024 postmortem after being named in Tapper book: \u2018It\u2019s over\u2019 &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fwarnock-uninterested-in-biden-2024-postmortem-after-being-named-in-tapper-book-its-over-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=2441496&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 Raphael Warnock of Georgia has expressed disinterest in discussing the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election, declaring it over.His comments come <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-answers-if-shed-pardon-trump-not-a-matter-of-innocence-or-guilt\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley on Pardoning ...: Not About Innocence or Guilt\">amidst ongoing speculation<\/a> regarding President Joe Biden&#8217;s fitness for office,following quotes from the book &#8220;Original Sin&#8221; by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson,which implied that Warnock might have considered running for the presidency had Biden stepped down earlier. Warnock emphasized his commitment to focusing on current issues, especially criticizing Republican efforts to cut Medicaid, which he warns could leave millions without healthcare. He indicated that he aims to prioritize health care access rather than reflecting on past election concerns. Warnock, who won his Senate seat in 2021 and was re-elected in 2022, will be up for election again in 2026. The Democratic Party currently faces leadership uncertainties for future elections.  <\/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\">Warnock uninterested in Biden 2024 postmortem after being named in Tapper book: &lsquo;It&rsquo;s over&rsquo;<\/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_2135769\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/raphael-warnock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Raphael Warnock<\/a> (D-GA) doesn&rsquo;t want to talk about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">2024 election<\/a> anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia senator said what he &ldquo;absolutely&rdquo; knows about last year&rsquo;s election is that it&rsquo;s &ldquo;over&rdquo; amid continued speculation over former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a>&lsquo;s fitness for office. An excerpt from the Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson book <em>Original Sin<\/em>, which has cast further doubt on Biden&rsquo;s health, quoting Harris campaign adviser David Plouffe named Warnock as someone who would have &ldquo;kicked the tires&rdquo; on a 2024 run had Biden stepped down earlier.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3427909\/paul-four-republicans-opposed-trump-tax-bill\/\">Paul says &#8216;at least four&#8217; Republicans opposed to Trump tax bill but insists &#8216;I want to vote for it&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3427803\/trump-warns-rand-paul-against-opposition-big-beautiful-bill\/\">Trump warns Rand Paul against opposition to &#8216;big, beautiful bill&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3426873\/joni-ernst-big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-changes-town-hall\/\">Joni Ernst defends &#8216;big, beautiful bill&#8217; Medicaid changes in town hall: &#8216;Well, we all are going to die&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Here&rsquo;s what we absolutely know about last year&rsquo;s election &mdash; it&rsquo;s over. And I&rsquo;m going to spend all of my energy focused on the task in front of us,&rdquo; he told NBC.<\/p>\n<p>Warnock instead pivoted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3427933\/mike-johnson-millions-people-lose-medicaid-trump-bill-choose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Republican attempts to enact Medicaid cuts<\/a>, insisting that the GOP is &ldquo;literally trying to take healthcare away from children.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Republicans are trying to push forward this big, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-ceo-has-no-credibility-following-non-partisan-claims-joe-concha\/\" title=\"NPR CEO has no \u2018credibility\u2019 following non-partisan claims: Joe Concha\">ugly bill<\/a> that&rsquo;s going to literally cut as many as 7 million Americans off of their healthcare,&rdquo; he said, later suggesting allowing the tax cuts to expire for those making $500,000 or more a year to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >prevent cutting important programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Warnock, a senator for the swing state of Georgia, was elected in the 2021 special election against former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and beat back Republican Herschel Walker in 2022 to keep his seat. He&rsquo;s up for election in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The recent Biden speculation, buoyed further by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">president<\/a>&lsquo;s prostate cancer diagnosis, follows a decisive defeat for Democrats in the 2024 election. Biden stepped down as the Democratic nominee in July 2024 after a disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump, and the party coalesced around former Vice President Kamala Harris. She would lose to Trump in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But Harris only had months to campaign, while Trump had years. Democrats blamed Biden for not stepping down in favor of her earlier to possibly give her a bigger edge against Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3222249\/how-kamala-harris-plowed-through-1-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>HOW KAMALA HARRIS PLOWED THROUGH $1 BILLION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now the party is viewed as having a leadership void, with no clear-cut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2028-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">2028 contenders<\/a> other than Harris, if she runs.<\/p>\n<p>Warnock, and others such as Govs. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI), as well as former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, could seek a leading role in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p><\/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_2135769\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2135769\"}});<\/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>Warnock dismisses Biden 2024 discussions, stating, &#8220;It&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2441497,"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\/09\/Raphael-Warnock.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[34979,33017,56316,6343,32076],"class_list":["post-2441496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-biden-2024","tag-political-analysis","tag-tapper-book","tag-warnock","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Raphael-Warnock.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441496","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441500,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441496\/revisions\/2441500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}