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Raphael Warnock Totally Shuts Down Kristen Welker's Biden Obsession

When Meet The Press's Kristen Welker tried to return to her obsession with Joe Biden and the 2024 election, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) shut her down.

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Kristen Welker has been obsessed with Joe Biden and the 2024 election. She has been nonstop asking every elected Democrat who comes on Meet The Press to talk about Biden, so far, none of the Democrats have played along with Welker’s idea that Biden is an important story or matters to voters.

Video of Raphael Warnock on Meet The Press:

On Sunday, Welker asked Sen. Raphael Warnock:

 Let me talk to you now about the state of the Democratic Party. As there's been a lot of focus. On former President Biden, the state of his health in the waning days of the campaign. I wanna read you a statement from one of former vice President Kamala Harris's senior campaign advisors, David Plouffe.

This is from the new book Original Sin, which takes a look at Biden's 2024 campaign. Plouffe says, if Biden had decided in 2023 to drop out. We would've had a robust primary Whitmer, Pritzker, Newsom, Buttigieg, Harris, and Klobuchar would've run Warnock and Shapiro would've kicked the tires, maybe Mark Cuban or a business person of some sort.

20% of governors and 30% of senators would've thought about it. We would have been eminently stronger. You were named checked there, Senator, so I have to give you a chance to respond. Would the Democratic Party have been stronger, had President Biden dropped out of the race sooner or not run at all?

Warnock responded to Welker:

 Kristen, here's what we absolutely know about last year's election. It is over.

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