Some incumbent Democrats running for re-election in November’s presidential election are hesitant to comment on Biden’s performance in last month’s debate with former President Trump and whether he should be the Democratic nominee.
The campaigns of Sens. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) did not provide comment or concerns about the debate by the time of publication to Fox News Digital.
“Voters in November have a clear choice between an administration focused on lowering costs, expanding the middle class and restoring reproductive freedom, or Trump’s MAGA policies that ban abortion and devastate hardworking Nevada families,” a spokesperson for Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
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Democratic senators up for reelection have avoided commenting on Biden’s debate performance. (Getty Images)
“Senator Rosen is focused on his reelection campaign and continuing his track record as one of the most bipartisan, independent and effective Senators,” the statement continued, without mentioning Biden.
The campaign did not respond to questions from Fox News Digital about Biden’s debate appearance or his position as the Democratic nominee.
“Given that she has voted 100% for Joe Biden’s disastrous Bidennomics policies, it is not surprising that Jacky Rosen would refuse to ask him to step down as party leader, no matter how disabled he may appear to be,” said Christy Wilkinson, a spokeswoman for Nevada Republican Senate candidate and former U.S. Army Captain Sam Brown.
Tammy Baldwin will not accompany Biden during his Wisconsin visit, but will continue to tour the state
A spokesperson for Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, referred Fox News Digital to comments she made to local media. Capital TimesIn it, she said she still supports Biden but is “fighting her own campaign for the people of Wisconsin.”
“Senator Baldwin’s silence speaks volumes. Having voted with Biden 95.5% of the time, we can only assume that Senator Baldwin still believes President Biden is fit for office. This speaks as much to her judgment as her endorsement of Biden’s failed policies of inflation and open borders,” Ben Voelkel, a spokesman for Wisconsin Republican Senate front-runner Eric Hovde, said in a statement.
Baldwin is seeking re-election in Wisconsin. (Daniel Boxerski/Wisconsin Democratic Party via Getty Images)
Tester’s race is rated a “toss-up” by nonpartisan political handicappers. Cook Political Report“The Democratic Party is a very strong party, and we are very grateful to them for their support,” Biden said in a statement.
However, a Tester spokesman was quoted as saying: Montana Free Press“Senator Tester has always worked with President Trump when it was good for Montana and stood up to President Biden when it was bad for Montana. He will do whatever it takes to protect Montana no matter who is in the White House,” he said, avoiding questions about Biden’s performance or his position as the Democratic nominee.
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Senator Jon Tester and Montana Republican Senate candidate Tim Sheehy. (Kevin Dietsch/Louise Johns)
Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy, a spokesman for a Republican Senate candidate in Montana, directed Fox News Digital to X’s post criticizing Tester, in which Sheehy blasted Tester for his previous vouches for Biden’s competency and for “failing to hold Biden accountable.”
In Ohio, Brown He told reporters After the debate, it became clear that he was focused on his race, not the presidency.
“Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance made it clear that he is unfit to lead. It is pathetic that Sherrod Brown refuses to acknowledge the truth,” Moreno said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Brown voted for Biden nearly 100% of the time and helped create the border invasion, disastrous economy and chaos on the international stage that has occurred under this Administration. Biden and Brown are timeless politicians with over 100 years in office combined, and Ohioans will be ousting them in November.”
Republican Senate candidate tied with Biden opponent in debate: Bob Casey knew
L – Bernie Moreno R – Sherrod Brown (Getty Images)
Prompted by reporters after the debate, Senator Casey said, “It was a bad night for him, it was a bad debate, but I think we all know what the issues are,” but he did not elaborate.
In a video shared with X by the campaign of Casey’s opponent, Dave McCormick, the senator did not answer a question about whether Biden is still fit to be president.
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“Bob Casey, are you really not concerned about Biden’s ‘terrible’ debate performance? Pennsylvanians I’ve heard from should be concerned. Our military needs a commander in chief who is strong and astute to lead in a time of crisis. Yet Casey is back to his usual boring tactics of defending Biden and lying to the people of Pennsylvania,” McCormick said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
With Biden and vulnerable senators vying for reelection in key battleground states, the president’s approval rating has slipped in post-debate polls by The New York Times, Siena College and The Wall Street Journal. The former showed Trump winning 49% to 41% among registered voters, while the latter showed him beating the president among the same group by a similar margin, 48% to 42%.
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