Pete Aguilar Asked Point Blank How Long He Thought President Biden Wasn't The Best Person To Lead

2 months ago

At a House Democratic press briefing on Tuesday, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) was asked about President Biden being on the ticket.

Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:

https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript

Stay Connected
Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes
Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes
Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes
More From Forbes: http://forbes.com

Transcript

00:00How long would you say that you've had thoughts that President Biden might not be the best

00:07person to leave your ticket in November?

00:09What was the question?

00:10How long have I?

00:11How long have you had thoughts that he might not be best suited to leave in November at

00:14the top of your ticket?

00:15Look, I think as House Democratic leaders, our job, first and foremost, was to listen

00:21to our members.

00:22You saw and you folks reported on those members who put out statements, you know, indicating

00:28their thoughts.

00:29Our job was to have a number of conversations with those individuals who express their opinions

00:35publicly and those who express their opinions privately, and to convey that to the leader

00:41and to members of the administration's team.

00:46The focus and objective of every single member that we talked to, though, was the same.

00:52We have to stop Donald Trump.

00:53We have to stop this Trump Project 2025.

00:57We need to ensure that they don't carry forward a national abortion ban, that they don't end

01:03contraception care, that they don't repeal the Affordable Care Act.

01:08Those are the things that kept Democrats together, but we did our jobs as Democratic leaders

01:15to convey the thoughts, the feelings of our colleagues to the leadership team, as well

01:23as to the White House.

Pete Aguilar Asked Point Blank How Long He Thought President Biden Wasn't The Best Person To Lead

Category

Transcript

Recommended