Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D‑TX) said Saturday that even though Democrats are not falling in line behind President Joe Biden, one thing unites the party: fear of a second Trump administration.
Crockett, who represents parts of Dallas, appeared on MSNBC’s The Katie Phang Show to discuss the president’s one-on-one interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that aired Friday. Host Katie Phang prefaced her conversation with the congresswoman with clips from the night before that featured a couple of prolonged pauses from Biden.
While five House Democrats have called on Biden to withdraw from the race, Crockett defended him, arguing that voters have spoken through the various Democratic presidential primaries so far this year.
“The ticket at this point in time is Biden and [Vice President Kamala] Harris, and so long as the president says that he can do this job, then that is our ticket,” Crockett said. “We have a democratic process, we went through the primary, and to subvert the will of the people based on polls is not what we do in a democracy.”
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