After his “soul of the nation” speech criticising pro-MAGA Republicans, Biden adviser and former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has refused to say whether the president supports his party’s support for extremist candidates.
After criticising pro-Trump candidates in his “soul of the nation” speech, Keisha Lance Bottoms refused to say on Sunday whether President Joe Biden supports Party members endorsing extremists.
According to Bottoms, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, “I think what the president will do is encourage people to go out and vote their conscience – whatever their conscience may be.”
According to reports, Democrats are endorsing candidates on the far right in an effort to reduce the likelihood that Republicans will win the 2022 midterm elections.
The moderate Republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, tweeted: “If President Biden is truly serious about threats to democracy, then he would condemn the tens of millions Democratic groups have spent promoting extremists threatening democracy.”
He continued, “The fact that he won’t do so demonstrates that this is more posturing from a failed administration.”
Bottoms responded, “I cannot speak to what the president supports,” when asked if Biden supported Democrats supporting these “extreme candidates.”
The former mayor of Atlanta said, “What he has said publicly shows that we are a nation that values the rule of law, that we are a nation of peace, that we are a nation that values the peaceful transition of power.”
He believes that “this MAGA agenda has no place in our democracy,” she continued.
Bottoms served as Atlanta’s mayor from 2018 to 2022 and is currently Biden’s senior advisor. She oversees his Office of Public Engagement as well.
Republicans criticised Biden’s speech on Thursday from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in which he referred to Trump supporters as a threat to the nation and to American democracy.
But the president insists he didn’t mean to imply that any of his supporters posed a threat.