Senate Dem Blames Biden for the Country Being ‘Stuck With a Madman’ in the White House

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Sunday said former President Joe Biden made a mistake by not stepping aside ahead of the 2024 election, effectively blaming him for President Donald Trump’s return to power.

Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, Murphy responded to revelations in the upcoming book Original Sin by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson.

The book, which will be released on Tuesday, alleges that top aides in the Biden White House concealed his cognitive decline.

Asked by host Kristen Welker if he believed top officials had engaged in a cover-up, Murphy said he had not read the book, but pointed to his own experiences with Biden in 2022 and 2023.

“I saw a president who was in control,” Murphy said. “But I admit that by 2024, the American public had made up their mind, right, that they wanted the Democratic Party to nominate somebody new, and it was absolutely a mistake for the party to not listen to those voters.”

Pressed further, Murphy said responsibility was shared throughout the Democratic Party.

“I think we all bear responsibility,” he said. “We maybe didn’t listen as early as we should have, in part because we have immense loyalty to this man who had led this country out of a pandemic, who had been maybe the most prodigious legislator as a president.”

Murphy added:

But ultimately, in retrospect, you can’t defend what the Democratic Party did because we are stuck with a madman, with a corrupt president in the Oval Office, and we should have given ourselves a better chance to win.

Original Sin describes itself as “an unflinching and explosive reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history: Joe Biden’s run for reelection despite evidence of his serious decline—amid desperate efforts to hide the extent of that deterioration.”

Watch above via NBC News.