My colleague Dana Bash reported that you,
Senator Jon Tester and Senator Sherrod Brown all said during
that lunch.
You don't think President Biden can win in 2024?
Is that true? Well, it's true that I said that.
And I did say that behind closed doors.
And you guys and others asked whether I'd said it.
And that is what I said.
So I figured I should come here and say it
publicly.
Why do you think he can't win in November?
I just think the the,
the, this this race is on a trajectory that is
very worrisome if you care about the future of this
country.
Joe Biden was nine point up at this time.
Time he was running, Hillary Clinton was five points up.
This is the first time in more than 20 years
that a Republican president has been up in this part
of the campaign.
Donald Trump is on track,
I think, to win this election and maybe win it
by a landslide and take with him the Senate and
the House.
And so for me, this isn't a question about polling.
It's not a question about politics.
It's a moral question about the future of our country.
And I think it's critically important for us to come
to grips with.
What we face if together we put this country on
the path of electing Donald Trump again.
So you're worried that your party is not just going
to lose the White House if Joe Biden is at
the top of the ticket,
but that you're also going to to lose both chambers
of Congress.
I think that we could lose the whole thing.
And it's staggering to me.
I mean, Donald Trump's already been president.
I thought he was the worst president that we've ever
had.
He already took away, you know,
the right for women to be able to make their
own decisions around healthcare.
He's already put 3 extreme Supreme Court.
Justices on the court that wouldn't even survive a vet
in the old days,
but but now are on the court because Donald Trump
did it.
These are all the things he's already done.
And today, as we're sitting here,
he's 3 1/2 points ahead in the polls.
He was ahead before President Biden had that very unfortunate
debate and,
and he and the lead has been growing and we
have four months to figure out how we're going to
save the country from Donald Trump.
And when I think about the kids that I used
to work for in the Denver.
Schools when I was there,
Superintendent, most of whom were kids of color,
most of whom are kids living in poverty in a
country with incredibly low economic mobility and where the poverty
rates are growing and where the economic unfairness,
I think is producing Donald Trump in many ways.
So you're saying the stakes are really high here.
The stakes could not be higher.
I believe that if we elect Donald Trump president again,
my generation of Americans will be the.
1st generation to leave less opportunity,
not more to the kids coming after us.
That's not Joe Biden I'm blaming for that.
That's not the senators I'm blaming for that.
That is our generation of Americans and we cannot let
that happen.