Biden adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms won’t say if the president supports his party, which backs extremist candidates, after the Soul of the Nation speech condemned pro-MAGA Republicans
- Biden’s senior adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms declined to say whether the president supports members of his party who support extremists
- Reports have surfaced that Democratic groups are throwing money behind extremist GOP candidates to prevent Republicans from winning the 2022 midterm election
- This promotes candidates that Biden says pose a threat to democracy.
Biden adviser and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will not say if the president supports his party, which is promoting extremist candidates, after condemning pro-MAGA Republicans in a speech in Soul of the Nation
Keisha Lance Bottoms declined to say Sunday whether President Joe Biden supports members of his party who support extremists after he slammed pro-Trump candidates in his “Soul of the Nation” speech.
“I think what the president is going to do is encourage people to get out there and vote their conscience — whatever their conscience is,” said Bottoms, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
Reports have surfaced that Democrats are promoting far-right candidates to lower the chances of Republicans winning the 2022 midterm elections.
“If President Biden is truly serious about threats to democracy, then he would condemn the tens of millions of Democratic groups spent promoting extremists who threaten democracy,” tweeted Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a moderate Republican.
Biden’s senior adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms declined to say whether the president supports members of his party who support extremists
“The fact that he will not do so shows that this is more of a pose by a failed government,” he added.
When Biden pushed to back the Democrats who support these “extreme candidates,” Bottoms said, “I can’t speak to what the president supports.
“What he has said publicly that we are a nation that values the rule of law, that we are a nation of peace, that we are a nation of peace, that we are a nation that values the peaceful transition of power,” the former said the mayor of Atlanta.
She added that he believes that “this MAGA agenda has no place in our democracy.”
GOP Gov. Larry Hogan said Biden must “condemn” the Democratic groups that have promoted candidates who pose a threat to democracy
Bottoms served as Atlanta mayor from 2018 to 2022 and is now a senior adviser to Biden. She also serves as director of his public engagement office.
Biden delivered a speech Thursday at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which Republicans criticized for calling Trump supporters a threat to the country and American democracy.
But the president insists he hasn’t said every supporter poses a threat.