Democrat Chris Murphy says there is ‘no question’ Biden’s refusal to step down hurt Harris

There is “no question” that Joe Biden should have dropped out of the 2024 race early, a Democratic senator said Sunday.

While far from surprising, it’s a sign of how far Biden’s team is willing to go to question his decision after the president’s team saw losses in the presidential, Senate and House races this cycle.

With the president waiting until July to leave office — well past the time when his party could have held a primary to nominate a new candidate — many Democrats on the left, such as Senator Chris Murphy, expressed the failure of the Biden/Harris. The White House and campaign strategy.

Murphy appeared on NBC Meet the media on Sunday and asked a question about the president from moderator Kristen Welker.

“Looking back, knowing that he finally made the decision to stand, yes, it would have been better if President Biden had made that decision earlier. I think there’s no question about it,” the Connecticut senator said.

Murphy joined others in his group in asking why, when Kamala Harris took the Democratic ticket in mid-July, the vice president’s campaign largely stopped messaging on economic issues that affect the masses, such as the work of the Federal Trade Commission under Lina Khan to fight corporate bankruptcies during high inflation.

“I think some of the most important things that Joe Biden did was to take on the big companies, they were going after their ability to govern themselves, to help consumers with some of the big costs and tactics that those companies were hurting us,” said Murphy. He added: “I wish the Biden campaign and the Biden White House campaign and the Harris campaign talked more about what they did to dismantle the power of the company.”

Many on the left argued after Harris’s defeat that the Democratic Party remained resistant to any messages accepting the challenge of running the company for fear of alienating the party’s wealthiest donors.

The director of One Fair Wage, a group that supports raising the minimum wage, identified the problem on Sunday in an interview with the guard, they said pleas for Harris’ campaign to focus on explaining how the White House would be – and already are – focused on helping ordinary Americans and easing the pain of higher grocery prices and other items fell on “deaf ears.”

“One of the biggest challenges we have been facing is that they have been wanting to talk about the economy. And we’ve been saying, it’s not about the economy, it’s about our economy: it’s about my economy, my ability to pay for eggs and gas.”

Murphy agreed Sunday on NBC.

“I think the Democrats need to be more aggressive in making this case that power is concentrated and it needs to be returned to ordinary Americans,” he said. “[W]I must be able to invite many different Americans to that conversation, regardless of whether they align with the Democrats on all social and cultural issues. “

In the same interview, Murphy said he would not support the nomination of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel, a Trump loyalist, has no formal law enforcement background.