Dem senator says Biden should have dropped out of presidential race much sooner

Sen Chris Murphy D-Conn declared that former President Joe Biden should have exited the presidential race sooner saying there s no doubt the Democratic Party would have been better served had he done so Obviously in retrospect the president should have gotten out of the race earlier There's no doubt that the Democratic Party would have been better served by having the ability to have an open primary Murphy notified NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker Sunday Biden abruptly dropped out of the presidential race in July following a disastrous debate with now-President Donald Trump in which he repeatedly appeared confused and flustered Vice President Kamala Harris fast took over as the nominee with less than four months left to campaign DAVE PORTNOY RIPS DEMOCRATS AND LIBERAL MEDIA FOR BIDEN COGNITIVE DECLINE 'COVER-UP'Biden s fitness to serve in office has come under intense scrutiny in modern days with the publication of CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Politico reporter Alex Thompson s book Original Sin which described the senior staff of the president attempting to hide his alleged cognitive decline from the society Recordings of Biden s Oct testimony to Special Counsel Robert Hur were distributed which indicated Biden struggling to recall the date of his son Beau s death JOE BIDEN DIAGNOSED WITH 'AGGRESSIVE FORM' OF PROSTATE CANCER WITH METASTASIS TO THE BONEMurphy disclosed judging Biden s cognitive abilities via that recording wasn t fair to the former president since it is a very emotional topic for him However the Democratic lawmaker disclosed voters clearly yearned a different candidate in However he stopped short of saying that Biden was in decline while he was in office saying that he saw a president who was in control Murphy reported it was a mistake for the Democratic Party to not heed the calls from voters to nominate somebody younger and more competitive in light of Trump s supremacy CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND PRACTICES By the American people have decided they craved somebody new they required somebody younger and it was a mistake for Democrats to not listen to the voters earlier and set up a process that would have gotten us in a position where we could have been more competitive that fall he revealed