Radio host Charlamagne tha God is pushing back on the idea that he should endorse President Joe Biden in the 2024 election.
The host of SiriusXM’s “The Breakfast Club” has previously said he will not endorse the current president, because he feels “burned” after giving his endorsement in 2020.
But during an appearance on ABC’s “The View,” he was pressed about his decision as co-host Sunny Hostin said, “Now is not the time, in my opinion, to sit this one out.”
“I didn’t say that. I never said I was sitting it out,” Charlamagne responded.
Hostin asked, “So what are you going to do?”
The host said he was going to focus on “issues not individuals.”
He explained:
“If I’m sitting here telling my listeners that you have somebody out there who is a threat to democracy, you have somebody who said they want to suspend the Constitution to overthrow the results of an election. You saw this person try to lead an attempted coup of this country, and I’m telling people that this guy’s a threat to democracy… There’s only two candidates out there so if I’m saying that about this individual, the choice is clear, right?”
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He noted, “I’ve seen y’all do this on ‘The View before.’ I saw y’all do this to Killer Mike when he was on ‘The View,’ and Killer Mike literally sat here and said, ‘Hey, I supported Keisha Lance Bottoms, I supported Ralph Warnock, I supported Jon Ossoff.”
“That’s your opportunity to say, clearly he’s talking about President Biden. why do y’all need us to say this if we don’t feel comfortable saying it?” he asked.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg responded, “It’s not that we need you to say it, but I think other folks need to hear.”
She argued it is “very difficult” to get “facts out through the media.”
“The reality is I think both candidates are trash, but I am going to vote in November and going to vote my best interest and I’m going to vote for who I think can preserve democracy,” Charlamagne said.
He added, “So if I think both candidates are trash and I don’t feel like endorsing one, would you rather me endorse an individual or endorse the fact that, hey, we need to go out and defend democracy.”
