The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne tha God savagely called out former Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison for not urging Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential election.
“There was always rumors that the DNC were the ones that, you know, quote unquote, ‘picked’” the candidate, Harrison told Charlamagne and his co-hosts on Friday, before he was interrupted. “Man, that’s a bunch of baloney,” Charlamagne replied. “Stop it, Jaime. You don’t—you’re not beholden to them no more.”
Harrison insisted he was “telling the truth” and “It’s not about being beholden,” however. “Do you think he would have listened? This is the most powerful” person, Harrison added, trying to explain himself. Charlamagne insisted that Biden “did listen to somebody, finally. So everybody should have told him earlier.”
“Everybody knew he was too old. He should have been a transitional president from the beginning,” Charlamagne continued.
Charlamagne then brought up Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s book Original Sin, which details their investigation into what they allege was a cover-up of Biden’s decline while in office. “I read the book, which said President Biden walked up to you, shook your hand, didn’t even know who you were,” Charlamagne said, confronting Harrison.
“That’s a bunch of bulls—,” the former Chair replied, but the radio host declared, “I don’t believe that, Jaime.”
Harrison, who recently launched a podcast as his foray back into the political arena, said he did his best at the time.
“You play with the hand you’re dealt,” Harrison said. “So at the end of the day, Joe Biden decided to run. Nobody of significance decided to challenge him. So, therefore, that is the horse that you have to ride.”
He added, “I’d rather take an old Joe Biden on a respirator right now than a goddamn Donald Trump right now who’s destroying this country.”
“That type of rhetoric is exactly why y’all lost,” Charlamagne replied, adding that America “shouldn’t have to choose between an authoritarian regime, authoritarian strategy, and old man on a respirator.”
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