Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison rejected calls from some Democrats for Biden to step aside after his poor performance in last month’s debate.
During an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Willie Geist asked Harrison if he ever questioned whether Biden should be the Democratic presidential nominee.
“There’s absolutely no doubt about it,” Harrison said, noting that 14 million voters supported Biden as his candidate for president during the primary, something the president has insisted on in keeping with his vow to continue campaigning.
“Now is the time to bend your knees, stiffen your spine and get behind this president,” Harrison urged skeptics.
Harrison argued that prominent Democrats are spending more time talking about Biden than about Trump or “Project 2025,” a policy blueprint proposed by the conservative Heritage Foundation for a possible second Trump administration, adding that there needs to be a “course correction” from which the former president is trying to distance himself.
“We must focus on the greatest threat ever to American democracy, and that is Donald Trump, the man who has taken away women’s right to control their bodies for the first time in 50 years, so that daughters growing up now have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers,” he said, referring to Trump’s appointment of three conservative justices to the Supreme Court that will overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 2022 that guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion.
“We cannot allow this to continue to happen. We need to focus on defeating Donald Trump. Joe Biden has done it before and he can do it again,” Harrison added.
