Ron Klain: Biden ‘Was Pushed by Public Calls’ from Elected Officials, Donors to Drop Out

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Me now is want of present Biden‘s longtime advisers, former White House chief of staff, Ron klain, who helped him prepare for his first and only debate with Donald Trump Mr. Klein, appreciate you being with this. You did not want President Biden to drop out. You‘ve said he deserved a second term? Given what you‘ve seen in the three weeks since he did with the Harris-walz campaign, were you wrong? You think well, I don‘t know if I was wrong or not, but the president made the decision to drop out and I think he executed extremely well.
>> He handed the baton off clearly to vice president Harris, one of my concerns was if he dropped out, there are some people in our party wanted to have an open process it‘s esa, an earth that‘s process to pick a nominee. But I thought that if it was going to drop out too, one thing to do was to give the baton clearly to the vice president. Xi‘s prepared to be president uniquely among other Democrats and experienced a national campaigns and the success she is had these three weeks proves that he made the right choice to endorse her and to point the party towards her. And to rally the party behind her. She‘s been a great candidate. She will be a great president. And I think there‘s been a lot of success these past three weeks on the campaign trail for when the president dropped out you I think it was a tweet you send out, you publicly blamed what you call donors and electeds saying that they quote, pushed out the president, they pushed out Biden from the campaign is that is that really the case? I mean, after that debate, certainly there was huge dismay among Democratic voters, wasn‘t there and certainly just this latest poll that we just talked about at the top of the program with in terms of enthusiasm, it said 85% or something right now as opposed to 46% in June well, I read through z as sums up.
>> There‘s a lot of rallying around the vice president. I‘m so glad to see it. It‘s harder than well-deserved for her. But but I do think the president was pushed by public bye bye. Public calls from elected officials from to drop out from donors, calling him to drop out. And I think that was wrong. I think he made the decision ultimately and he made the right decision to say if I‘m going to leave the race, I think the vice president should take over and it wrong though for them to do that. Why was it wrong for donors to raise objections to other elected officials I think that not wrong, immoral, but I think it was unfortunate because I think that the president had won the nomination, fair and square 14 million people went and voted for him and the vice president, vice president.
>> But again, that‘s all in the past, Anderson, he decided to drop out. He decided to endorse the vice president. Her campaign is going well. We have a better chance than ever to defeat Donald Trump this fall and to elect a experienced talented, intelligent president to lead the country for the next four years former speaker Nancy Pelosi, who obviously played a key role in convincing and pressuring President Biden to step aside has said that she hasn‘t spoken to the president since he dropped out and that she loses sleep over the fate of their friendship.