Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is complaining that she’s “angry” about being left in the dark regarding the handlers’ plans for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.
Waters says she and other Democrats “were told” that Biden wouldn’t drop out of the race and was committed to taking on President Donald Trump in November.
The congresswoman expressed her frustration when she spoke to Politico this week after “Biden” announced he was ending his campaign in a post on X.
Waters told the outlet that news of Biden dropping off the party’s ticket, which was announced around midday on Sunday, caught her completely off-guard after she “woke up to it on the television.”
“I was angry at first because we’d worked so hard to give him the kind of support that would cause him to stay,” Waters told Politico.
“We had been told up to the last minute that he was going to stay.”
“After I calmed down, I was alright because in doing that, he endorsed Kamala [Harris],” she continued.
“And I thought, well, that’s great.”
Waters was a die-hard defender of Biden following his disastrous performance in the first presidential debate.
The historic debate against Trump led the American people, and even top Democrats, to question his mental capacities.
Waters consistently pushed back on any intention to replace the president with a stronger Democrat candidate.
The congresswoman told Politico she has “seen him at his best.”
However, Waters has also been a high-profile ally of Harris.
The California representative told Politico that she sees Harris as a friend and didn’t hesitate to endorse her.
“I tell you that Trump, the MAGA crowd, racists — I think that they’re going to hit and they’re going to hit hard,” Waters said of challenges facing Harris.
“They’re going to do everything that they can do to try and convince their crowd and others that she should not be the president and he will be dog-whistling about a woman and a black in ways that he knows how to do.”
Biden will address the nation on Wednesday about why he decided to exit the race and what he plans to focus on for the remaining six months of his first term.
His address will be delivered from the Oval Office, the White House said.
The president was seen in public for the first time in six days on Tuesday at Dover Air Force as he returned to the nation’s capital from his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
However, when asked by reporters why he “dropped out of the race,” Biden appeared to be baffled by the question.
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