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Democrats nether menace of losing their seats to Republicans look to beryllium leaving President Biden precocious and adust pursuing what's been wide viewed arsenic a "disastrous" performance successful Thursday's statesmanlike debate.
Fox News Digital asked aggregate Democrat senators, House members and candidates facing pugnacious races for their absorption to the debate, arsenic good arsenic if they agreed with the appraisal by others successful their enactment that Biden should measurement speech arsenic a statesmanlike candidate.
Not 1 stepped up to support him.
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Senators Jon Tester, Jacky Rosen, Sherrod Brown, Tammy Baldwin and Bob Casey (Getty Images )
The names astir notably absent from jumping to Biden's defence were Sens. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., Jon Tester, D-Mont., Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Sherrod Brown, D-Pa, each of whom person been speedy to praise the president successful the much caller past.
Tester, for example, antecedently described Biden arsenic "absolutely 100% with it," and said, "He's fine. He's doing a bully job. I deliberation folks are making a bigger woody retired of it than it is." Republicans person been going aft him by moving those precise words successful ads crossed the state.
Baldwin's run distanced themselves from Biden pursuing the debate, telling 1 quality outlet connected Friday, "Tammy Baldwin is moving her ain contention for the radical of Wisconsin."
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"Senate Democrats person been telling Americans Joe Biden is inactive sharp. Jon Tester adjacent went truthful acold arsenic to accidental Biden is ‘absolutely 100% with it.’ It is wide they were lying, and voters volition retrieve that successful November," National Republican Senatorial Committee communications manager Mike Berg told Fox News Digital.
Reps. Ruben Gallego, the apt Democrat nominee for Senate successful Arizona, Colin Allred, the Democrat nominee for Senate successful Texas, and Elissa Slotkin, the apt Democrat nominee for Senate successful Michigan, arsenic good arsenic Angela Alsobrooks, the Democrat nominee for Senate successful Maryland, besides failed to support Biden erstwhile asked astir the debate.
Some House Democrats facing pugnacious races, specified arsenic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, person taken a akin approach. The National Republican Congressional Committee connected Friday posted a video connected societal media of Kaptur being trailed successful the airdrome by a GOP operative asking if Biden was "fit to beryllium president."
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"Joe Biden is president," Kaptur said, refusing to springiness a nonstop answer. When pressed by the operative, Kaptur simply said, "Are you acceptable to beryllium president?"
Kaptur's run did not respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.
Democratic Rep. Emilia Sykes won a choky contention successful Ohio's 13th Congressional District successful 2022 and Cook Political Report ranks her contention successful 2024 arsenic a "Democrat Toss Up." Fox News Digital reached retired to her bureau and did not person a response.
In Washington state, Dem. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is facing a pugnacious reelection run that the Cook Political Report ranks arsenic a "Democrat Toss Up." Her bureau did not respond to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.
Ohio Rep. Greg Landsman, who besides could beryllium facing a pugnacious reelection combat this year, did, however, admit what the others wouldn't.
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"Biden struggled, but he’s an honorable idiosyncratic who cares profoundly astir the state and Trump, connected the different hand, is simply a con antheral and lone cares astir himself," helium told Fox News Digital.
"I’m not definite what happens next. I’m wide astir my job, which is to service the 700,000 radical we correspond — moving to marque beingness amended for children and families by getting costs down, strengthening our democracy, restoring freedoms, and helping to lick the large problems we look truthful families don’t person to interest arsenic overmuch arsenic they bash now."
Brandon Gillespie is an subordinate exertion astatine Fox News. Follow him connected X astatine @BGillespieAL.
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