Chris Coons: What Dems Knew About Biden’s Decline Not Relevant

HUNT: “Look, I want to ask you, we know that the — one of the principle lines of attacks, and I’ve talked to sources who say the polling shows this is a serious vulnerability, that Republicans are going to say that Kamala Harris knew that President Biden wasn’t up to four more years. I mean, they would say that about you, I think, as well. And they’re going to allege a cover-up. They’re going to say, she knew. She covered it up. How do you answer that charge considering what we have seen transpire over the last month?”
COONS: “First, I think it’s B.S.. Second, I don’t think it’s particularly relevant, because what the American people are going to be looking at in November is Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris. And that is a fundamentally different race going forward and a different electoral challenge and a different direction for the American people than we were looking at before. Vice President Harris is a generation younger than Donald Trump. She’s younger by 20 years. She has energy, engagement, and enthusiasm. She’s got a record of accomplishment as an elected prosecutor, the attorney general of our largest state, as vice president alongside Joe Biden. And let’s look at what’s just happened. Donald Trump had to go find a new vice presidential candidate in J.D. because his vice president from his first term and his chief of staff and his secretary of defense, and his national security adviser from Trump’s first term all said he belongs nowhere near the White House. Joe Biden will be running for and campaigning for his vice president. I never saw any episode or incident with Joe Biden as we saw on that debate stage. I don’t think that there is a huge cover-up underway here. And I, frankly, don’t think that matters to the discussion and the debate going forward because, as she said here on this stage in Wilmington, engaging with this excited and fired-up campaign team, this is going to be the prosecutor against the felon. As the attorney general of California, Kamala Harris had quite a strong record going after fraudsters, cheaters, and, frankly, predators. And Donald Trump has been held liable in a court of law for commercial fraud, for his Trump University, for his ways in which he defrauded loans and lenders, and for sexual assault. I think the contrast here going forward on who’s truthful and who’s a convict is going to be sharp.”
HUNT: “All right, Senator Chris Coons, I’m coming up against the top of the hour, but I’m very grateful to have you. Thank you so much for your time.”
COONS: “Thank you, Kasie.”
HUNT: “See you soon. All right.”