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Peter Welch: “President Biden made the right decision to step aside.”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

Vermont Sen. Peter Welch on "The Takeout"

Published November 17, 2024 | Video Starts at 01:25

And we have other electable, young, energizing Democratic governors and senators in swing states. Senator, how did that work out? Well, it was the right decision that President Biden made the right decision to step aside. I have no doubt whatsoever about that. And then, you know, we were, it was so late that we didn't have an opportunity for a primary process. (01:25–01:30)

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Asserts that President Biden's decision to step aside was correct.

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“We didn't win the House, we lost the Senate, and we lost the presidency.”
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“It actually was still pretty close in many of these states.”
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“Biden in the Biden Harris administration who I think demonstrably were as pro worker, as pro union, as pro middle class as any president…”
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“Tax cuts for billionaires tariff, which is in effect a tax increase. It will cost the average Vermont family about 3,500 bucks if his policy…”
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“He got incredible things done with the Infrastructure act, the COVID Relief act, things that made a difference.”
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“Incumbent parties, whether they were considered very liberal or very conservative, took a hit, a bad hit [post-COVID].”
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“Inflation is down now, but the prices are still up.”
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“He was convicted, he was indicted, and he was impeached, and he won. So the reality is he won this election despite those things, and he won…”
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“If Peter Welch went to Vermont now there's no housing. If you want to get an apartment, it's going to be $2,500, maybe three grand.”
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“The president said that he's going to go after political adversaries that's really, really a bad thing to do.”
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“I doubt very much that [Matt Gaetz will] ever take the oath of office as [Attorney General].”
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“This report, as I understand, is completed and the only reason it's not released is because Matt Gaetz resigned.”
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“The American people are entitled to know what the deal is with Matt Gaetz.”
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“With President Trump, it's pretty clear his policy will be bombs away.”
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“Matt Gaetz is barely a lawyer, as I understand it, and has made a name for himself as a firebrand, not as an impartial adjudicator of…”
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“The mission of President of the United States is to serve the welfare and well being of all of us.”
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“The United States Senate...has to maintain its responsibility for advice and consent and not just be a yes man for whoever that president…”
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“I support Israel as a democratic and Jewish state.”
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“We've always supported...a two state solution, independent, Jewish secure state of Israel, an independent, peaceful, really disarmed…”
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“Trump is going to challenge [the two-state solution].”
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“There are very strong forces in internal Israeli politics, including Netanyahu, that wants a one state.”
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“43,000 [Palestinians] have died, 100,000 severely wounded.”
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“There's a lot to be disappointed in with the failure of the Biden administration to use the leverage it has with Netanyahu to reduce the…”
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“Clearly the Trump administration and particularly through the what we're hearing from J.D. Vance is they may pull the plug [on support for…”
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“Get the money out the door and give authorization for deeper strikes to military targets [in Russia].”
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“In Vermont In July of 23, we had terrible floods that wiped out houses and farms and businesses.”
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“The Infrastructure act and the bipartisan Infrastructure act did so much to unleash private investment.”
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“Goldman Sachs says there's going to be about $3 trillion in investment in clean energy.”
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