JB Pritzker Says Biden Should Have Remained 2024 Democratic Presidential Nominee

On CNN, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said that President Biden should have remained the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.

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00:00Look, all this stuff about his health or, you know, commentary that people are making in books,

00:05frankly, that's very backward looking.

00:08I think the one thing that I would say is that certainly either he needed to be the Democratic nominee

00:14as he promised he would be, or he needed to drop out before the Democratic primaries, right?

00:21You can't have, and I learned this when I ran for governor,

00:24if you're going to have new people running, right, you've got to be able to run in a set of primaries

00:29so people can see you operate, they get to know you during a set of primaries.

00:33Remember, when he dropped out, when Biden dropped out and essentially asked Kamala Harris to step up,

00:39which was the right thing to do if he's going to step away, people didn't know who she was.

00:44And with 108 days left, it was near impossible for her to introduce herself.

00:49If you asked 100 people on the street, do they know who the vice president is, most people have no idea.

00:54And they didn't know much about Kamala Harris, honestly.