‘This Is Out of Love for Our Country and Respect for Joe Biden’: Casten on Dems Seeking a New 2024 Nominee

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BURNETT: “Congressman. I appreciate your time and I know you may have heard part of that conversation. We were talking about the polls and how the president clearly does not believe polls and has been angry about them when they have been pointed out to him for many months prior to this and you know, to that point, the polls said there‘ll be a red wave in the midterms, didn‘t happen. Biden was written off early in 2020 when he lost Iowa and New Hampshire and Nevada and then he came back South Carolina, he became president. So do you think that he is justified at this point to dismiss the polls?”
CASTEN: “Look, we all have different points of data. I‘ve come to you as someone who truly loves Joe Biden, who has amazing respect for what he‘s done over his five decades. And I think I speak for every member of the house democratic caucus that we fully understand and are frightened by the stakes of this election. We also are people who are, who are not pulling every week, but we are talking to our constituents. We‘re talking to supporters, people who voted for us, people who voted against us. And the consistent message we‘re getting is if this election is a referendum on one guy who was the only president to lose jobs during his history and another guy who created more jobs than any president in history. One guy who was a kind decent person, another guy who was an adjudicated rapist then we win. But the narrative since the debate has been, how is President Biden going to shift the focus onto his record and away from the slips of the tongue. And people are nervous about that. And the polls that folks are doing, that they‘re seeing that we‘ve seen and I‘ve not seen anything the White House suggests that if we‘re going to put our best foot forward, we need to make a change and that makes us really sad but this is out of love for our country and respect for Joe Biden that we‘re at this point.”