Reporter Calls Out Democrats Who Are Trying To ‘Reverse’ Their Opinion On Biden’s Decline

Axios national political correspondent Alex Thompson called out Democrats who are now trying to “reverse” their opinion on former President Joe Biden’s cognitive health.

Thompson and Jake Tapper appeared on CNN Tuesday to lay out bombshell details revolving around Biden’s physical and cognitive decline in their new book, “Original Sin,” which includes accounts from members of the former White House’s cabinet and Democrats. Thompson said that many Democrats who had previously defended Biden are now admitting that he should not have ran again, while others refuse to even address the question about their support for the former president.

“A lot of these same Democrats who are now admitting that Joe Biden should not have run again, that he had cognitive decline, there’s a lot of tape and posts and tweets attesting that he was up to this job,” Thompson said. “Not just at the time in 2024, but for four more years, which was a job he was going to do. So you are seeing some basically try to reverse themselves, some try to navigate it, and some just dodging the question all together. You saw Chuck Schumer on Kasie show just last week basically just say ‘we’re looking forward, we’re looking forward.’”

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Tapper added that David Plouffe, who worked as a campaign aide on former Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, said that the Democrats must “never again” attempt to convince voters that they “are not actually seeing what they are witnessing.” Many congressional Democrats, White House aides and members of the former president’s cabinet were reportedly stunned by Biden’s declining physical and mental state, but nearly all of them refused to speak out publicly or stop him from running for re-election, according to Tapper and Thompson’s book.