CNN’s Van Jones broke down in tears Sunday as she gave an emotional reaction to the news that President Biden was withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race.
The senior political commentator said he was heartbroken by the decision and likened the Democrats’ situation to receiving the car keys from a relative who is too old to drive.
“He’s fighting and fighting and everyone is so frustrated. And finally you return the keys. And then you just cry,” Jones said, on the verge of breaking down live on TV.
“Because this is someone you love. This is someone you care about,” added the former adviser to President Barack Obama.
“This is someone who was there for you. This is someone you wouldn’t be here without. And you had to get something from him.”
Jones criticized recent media coverage that he claimed portrayed Biden as “a problem for the party.”
“I don’t know anything about politics. I just know that I love this man, I care about this man,” he said.
Along with Jones, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) also appeared troubled by the live news, with the Biden-Harris campaign co-chairman blasting CBS.
“The people in Delaware who have been texting and calling me in the last few hours all want me to tell Joe Biden how much we love him, how much we admire and respect his service, and how grateful we are to all about the decisions he’s made over his decades of service and his unwavering loyalty to our home state of Delaware,” Coons said as she stopped crying for a few seconds before composing herself.
“He’s the greatest Delawarean in our history, and the fact that he’s chosen to be grounded in our community, in our parish, in our parishes, in the traditions and history of bipartisanship and respecting each other and being compassionate and dignified,” he added.
The latest on President Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race:
MSNBC host Jen Psaki also appeared surprised by her former boss’ decision.
“I’m digesting this myself here, because I worked for him for a year and a half, and he’s an outstanding person, an outstanding president.” the former press secretary said as she broke the news during Sunday’s edition of “Inside Jen Psaki.”
Before Psaki read Biden’s letter, she could be heard stuttering and pausing before going into detail, with the MSNBC anchor later noting on X that the news caught everyone by surprise.
“There is very little indication from people close to him and many people in the campaign that this would happen, so much so that there were reports of Democrats calling for him to do so,” she wrote.
What you need to know about President Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race:
Biden’s surprise announcement not only threw Democrats’ plans into chaos, but upended CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer’s Sunday afternoon.
Blitzer could be seen in an X-post ordering a signature “Wolf Spritzer” cocktail at the El Presidente restaurant in Washington, DC, around 12:57 p.m. before he was forced to return to the CNN newsroom just hours later to discuss Biden’s abandonment. .
Many sympathetic journalists shared memes of the CNN anchor’s wise face after being forced to cover another major news moment on his day off.
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