JB Pritzker Explains The Big ‘Problem’ With Biden Dropping Out | EUROtoday

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) has weighed in on Democrats’ 2024 defeat to Donald Trump as a brand new ebook on former President Joe Biden’s failing well being reignites the talk on why the get together misplaced.

Pritzker, a possible 2028 Democratic presidential contender, mentioned the “problem” was that Biden failed to offer his then-Vice President Kamala Harris sufficient time to “introduce herself” to the American public after he dropped out, regardless of her high-profile place in his administration.

The billionaire, who was on the Harris marketing campaign’s brief record for a working mate final yr, mentioned with solely 108 days of the marketing campaign remaining, the previous vice chairman was handed a “near impossible” process to get her message out.

The ebook, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” paperwork Biden’s psychological and bodily deterioration and last-minute resolution to step away from the presidential race.

The central argument of the ebook, co-authored by Axios’ Alex Thompson and CNN’s Jake Tapper, is that Biden’s inside circle lined up the complete extent of his worsening situation.

To that time, the ebook claims inside discussions came about about placing Biden in a wheelchair through the 2024 marketing campaign.

Journalist Kasie Hunt requested Pritzker concerning the explosive ebook on CNN’s “The Arena” on Tuesday.

Drawing from his personal expertise of working for governor, Pritzker, the inheritor to the Hyatt lodge fortune, replied that candidates want to participate in main elections “so people can see you operate.”

“When Biden dropped out and essentially asked Kamala Harris to step up, which was the right thing to do if he’s going to step away, people didn’t know who she was,” he mentioned.

“And with 108 days left, it was near impossible for her to introduce herself. If you asked 100 people on the street, ‘Do they know who the vice president is?’ most people have no idea. And they didn’t know much about Kamala Harris, honestly.”

Pritzker added Harris was left to “tell everybody who she is, withstand all the scrutiny and attacks that were coming from the other side, and had only 108 days to accomplish the goal of winning.”

“That is the problem that occurred,” he added.

Pritzker dismissed the arguments that Democrats received the messaging improper, or that Harris was the improper candidate, as “there weren’t a lot of other alternatives because Joe Biden didn’t run.”

When requested what he knew of Biden’s well being points, Pritzker mentioned he solely skilled “a guy who brought to the table a lot of good ideas about how to solve problems.”

Ahead of the ebook’s launch, Biden informed the BBC final week that he didn’t suppose it could have mattered if he had dropped out of the presidential race sooner.

Biden, who turned 82 in November, dropped out of the presidential race final summer season following a calamitous debate efficiency.