It took less than a week for the president of the United States to end his re-election campaign and for Democrats to replace him as their presumptive nominee. U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo. 6th District, questions whether President Joe Biden ended his candidacy willingly.
“I was just very surprised, very surprised that the President decided to pull out,” Graves told Missourinet affiliate KFEQ in St. Joseph. “One day, he said he was in and there was no getting him out, and he said his cognitive ability was as good as it’s ever been. And then the next thing you know, he’s pushed out and they’ve crowned a new candidate.”
Graves supported his statement by pointing out that Biden had insisted he was staying in the race.
“And then he meets with a few, you know, party leaders and the next thing you know, he announces he’s quitting the race,” he said. “There’s nothing other, no other explanation than he was pushed out.”
Graves called the switch from Biden to Harris hypocritical.
“The other side likes to claim that President Trump is a threat to democracy,” he said. Yet they threw…the democratic process completely out and did not have an open, you know, an open forum.”
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