Joe Biden admitted in a Sunday interview that he was pressured to drop out of the 2024 election race by prominent Democrat colleagues.
Since Biden suddenly exited the race last month, Democrats and the media have pushed the narrative that Biden selflessly left the race for the good of the nation.
But as Biden revealed, that was not the case at all.
“The polls we had showed it was a neck and neck race, it would have been down to the wire. But what happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that I was gonna hurt them in the races,” Biden told “CBS Sunday Morning” host Robert Costa.
NEW: President Joe Biden confirms he was pushed out of the race by top Democrats who apparently staged a coup on him.
“But what happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the house and Senate thought that I was gonna hurt them in the races.”
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“And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic…and I thought it would be a real distraction.”
The revelation is not all that surprising given Biden for weeks resisted widespread calls by Democrats to drop out following his disastrous debate performance on June 27 before finally dropping out a month later.
“I’m the nominee of the Democratic Party,” Biden had said in early July. “No one’s pushing me out. I’m not leaving. I’m in this race to the end, and we’re going to win because when Democrats unite, we always win.”
Biden’s admission also comes after reporting by journalist Seymour Hersh and other outlets, who claimed former President Barack Obama threatened Biden with the 25th Amendment, saying he had “Kamala’s approval” to force him out of the race.
Hersh said Obama was “deeply involved” with this coup and called Biden after his health “incident” in Las Vegas on July 17.
“I went over [reports] this week with a senior official in Washington who helped me fashion an account of a White House in complete disarray,” Hersh said. “Obama called Biden after breakfast [on July 20] and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment.’”
He added that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries were also involved in the plot with Obama.
“The official, who has decades of experience in fundraising, told me that [Barack] Obama emerged as the strongman throughout the negotiations. ‘He had an agenda and he wanted to seek it through to the end, and he wanted to have control over who would be elected,’” Hersh said.
Pelosi tacitly admitted she pressured Biden to drop out of the race in an interview with the New Yorker.
“So I really wanted him to make a decision of a better campaign, because they were not facing the fact of what was happening. Just a little background. I’ve never been that impressed with his political operation… I’m not. I just haven’t been. I mean, it just happened. They won the White House. Bravo.”
“So my concern was, this ain’t happening, and we have to make a decision for this to happen, and the President has to make the decision for that to happen,” she added.
Former President Donald Trump has notably been calling out the coup against Biden and defended the puppet president’s right to run and even suggested Biden may try to fight for the nomination back at the DNC later this month.
“The presidency was taken away from Biden — and I’m no Biden fan,” Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday. “Whether he could win or he couldn’t win, he had the right to run. They said we can do it the nice way or the hard way. What they’ve done is incredible.”
PRESIDENT TRUMP: The presidency was taken away from Biden — and I’m no Biden fan. Whether he could win or he couldn’t win, he had the right to run. They said we can do it the nice way or the hard way. What they’ve done is incredible. pic.twitter.com/djrPp8Wn20
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 8, 2024
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