President Joe Biden was scheduled to speak at 9.50 pm Monday but his speech was delayed as Hillary Clinton, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently took more time in their warm-up speeches eventually pushing Biden’s farewell speech past prime time. Reports said the delay resulted in a drop in live view of the President’s speech as it was wrapped up well after midnight — in New York.Biden may have tried to put the ‘Democrat coup’ behind him but the DNC timing delivered a fresh blow. A longtime Biden aide told Axios that it was awful.
“This is awful. He literally set up a campaign and handed it over to them — do they have to cut him out of prime time?” the aide said.
The convention officials said the delay was because of the cheers of the people and the lag cut two speakers out as the officials wanted to present Biden without further delay. “Because of the raucous applause interrupting speaker after speaker, we ultimately skipped elements of our program to ensure we could get to President Biden as quickly as possible so that he could speak directly to the American people. We are proud of the electric atmosphere in our convention hall and proud that our convention is showcasing the broad and diverse coalition behind the Harris-Walz ticket throughout the week on and off the stage,” the convention officials said in a statement over pushing Biden past prime time.
“This is awful. He literally set up a campaign and handed it over to them — do they have to cut him out of prime time?” the aide said.
The convention officials said the delay was because of the cheers of the people and the lag cut two speakers out as the officials wanted to present Biden without further delay. “Because of the raucous applause interrupting speaker after speaker, we ultimately skipped elements of our program to ensure we could get to President Biden as quickly as possible so that he could speak directly to the American people. We are proud of the electric atmosphere in our convention hall and proud that our convention is showcasing the broad and diverse coalition behind the Harris-Walz ticket throughout the week on and off the stage,” the convention officials said in a statement over pushing Biden past prime time.
“I’m tapping out – I can’t stay up this late, we all have lives and kids,” former “View” co-host Meghan McCain wrote on X Monday. “God speed to our 81 year old President getting through the speech at this hour. Whatever producers did this to him and let it go over this long at this hour is an a—— and it is disrespectful to Biden.”
“Democrats kicked Joe Biden out of the presidential race and now they aren’t even going to let him speak until after 11 pm eastern on the first night of the convention,” OutKick founder Clay Travis wrote before Biden’s speech. “Diabolical. They are nasty and play to win.”
Source : Times of India
