‘He Was Forced Out’: Chris Wallace Punctures DNC Unity by Noting Biden Was Just ‘Thrown Out of a Window’

HUNT: “ — about Kamala Harris because it is hard to miss the degree to which this convention has roared to life with Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket in a way that it just simply was not going to do were Joe Biden to be at the top of the ticket. But I think there is also an acknowledgement that doing everything to help her is very important for how people will think about Joe Biden in the future, considering he could have decided not to run for reelection months ago, put them in this position over the summer. Now we find ourselves here.”

Wallace: “You know, Wolf, the word that everybody is using to describe tonight is bittersweet. It’s just bitter. The fact of the matter is — I’m not saying Joe Biden is bitter — but, you know, it’s like you’ve been thrown out a window and as you’re falling, you go, ‘Gee it’s nice out here.’ No, he got thrown out of a window and, basically, he was forced. You know, there’s going to be a lot of talk tonight about how generous it was of him and selfless of him. He was basically forced out by Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries; and I suspect even the fact that there has been this surge of enthusiasm since he left and Kamala Harris took his place, that’s got to be pretty tough, too. You got thrown out of a window and everybody’s applauding the person who’s now in the room.”

BLITZER: “What do you think he needs to do to make the case for Kamala Harris tonight?”

Wallace: “Well, I think — the first thing he’s got to do is say why he picked her and all of the things in her past. Remember, as popular as she is, she’s still largely unknown to the American people, Wolf. And so, I think he’s got to make the case as to why he picked her, how she was a governing partner. And to try to set up the contrast, which he would have between him and Trump, to set up the contrast between Kamala and Trump.”

HUNT: “And I think one of the things too, Wolf, is one of the behind the scenes dynamics that was driving Biden’s decision making was that he was concerned that Kamala Harris couldn’t beat Donald Trump. And part of what, I think, he’s going to have to do tonight is help assuage those concerns or those doubts and try to answer for that. Because the way in which he picked her also was not entirely free of feeling pressure to make sure he was meeting certain criteria because she had attacked him in a very personal way in the primary campaign.”