Democrats Contrast Biden Ouster with Republicans’ Yearslong Trump Struggle

Washington, D.C. – As their Republican opponents and even some fellow progressives unload on establishment Democrats for pushing Joe Biden out after voters had their say, lawmakers who helped show the president the door are casting the top-down maneuver as an example of effective party administration — drawing a contrast with Republicans’ long struggle to rid themselves of Donald Trump.

“What we’re showing is that we’re still a party and not a cult, and we actually came together and reevaluated our situation and decided that we need to move in a different path,” Representative Brittany Pettersen (D., Colo.), who called on Biden to step aside on July 12, told NR in the U.S. Capitol earlier this week. “I think that that shows the strength of the party, and I don’t think that that’s going to alienate swing voters.”

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Washington, D.C. – As their Republican opponents and even some fellow progressives unload on establishment Democrats for pushing Joe Biden out after voters had their say, lawmakers who helped show the president the door are casting the top-down maneuver as an example of effective party administration — drawing a contrast with Republicans’ long struggle to rid themselves of Donald Trump.

“What we’re showing is that we’re still a party and not a cult, and we actually came together and reevaluated our situation and decided that we need to move in a different path,” Representative Brittany Pettersen (D., Colo.), who called on Biden to step aside on July 12, told NR in the U.S. Capitol earlier this week. “I think that that shows the strength of the party, and I don’t think that that’s going to alienate swing voters.”