Hakeem Jeffries: ‘Joe Biden Is Definitely the Strongest Candidate to Defeat Donald Trump’

FARAH GRIFFIN: “Mr. Leader, I’ve got to ask politics because we’re in a presidential year, obviously, in a very kind of historic moment, Speaker Pelosi passed the baton to you and you had been rising the ranks, a star in the party, because you believed there was time for next generation of leadership, which I think we all applauded here. There are some, about a third of Americans worried that the president doesn’t have the vitality to serve out another four years. Do you think that it’s time to pass the baton to a new generation of leadership or do you think Joe Biden is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump?”
JEFFIRES: “Well, Joe Biden is definitely the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump. Let me say — (Applause) — first about Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi, in my view, the greatest speaker of all time.” (Applause)
FARAH GRIFFIN: “Yes.”
BEHAR: “Definitely.”