House Democrat admits party’s problems go ‘way beyond’ Biden

Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) admitted the Democratic Party has myriad problems it must address, suggesting that the focus needs to go beyond criticizing former President Joe Biden.

A soon-to-be-released book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson has renewed questions of Biden’s mental fitness and put multiple high-profile Democrats under scrutiny over their opinion of the former president’s abilities. Smith acknowledged that Biden’s inabilities were a “big part” of the Democratic Party’s 2024 election losses, but he contended that the party’s problems go “way beyond” the predicament of how the former president’s mental acuity was handled.

“He never should have tried to run for a second term, but we have issues on economics,

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