Democrats under fire for not sounding alarm earlier on Biden

Democratic leaders and lawmakers are coming under growing scrutiny for not blowing the whistle sooner on what is widely perceived to be President Biden’s decline during the final two years of his presidency.

Some Democrats fear there is going to be a lot more talk as members of their party wrestle over what went wrong in the 2024 election and how to chart a course going forward.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), who in February dismissed talk about a decline in Biden’s mental and physical fitness as “right-wing propaganda,” was challenged over the weekend by NBC’s Kristen Welker.

Welker put the question bluntly to Schumer by asking whether he “and other top Democrats misled” Americans about Biden’s “mental acuity.”

“Look, we didn’t,” Schumer answered tersely, before defending Biden’s record and character.