Elizabeth Warren Squirms When Pressed About Defending Biden's Mental Fitness In Podcast Interview

Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren struggled to take sides her past praise of President Joe Biden’s "sharp" mind successful a caller interview, equivocating that she believed it astatine nan time.

Warren appeared connected nan "Talk Easy pinch Sam Fragoso" podcast connected Sunday wherever nan left-leaning big asked whether she regretted saying Biden "had a sharpness to him" up until he dropped retired of nan 2024 statesmanlike election.

"I said what I believed to beryllium true," Warren said.

"You deliberation he was arsenic crisp arsenic you?" Fragoso pushed back.

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Warren gave a agelong region wherever she appeared to clasp backmost a laughter astatine nan question. 

"I said I had not seen decline," she yet responded, turning her caput and giving Fragoso a pointed look that he past reciprocated. "And I hadn’t astatine that point."

Warren and Fragoso springiness each different nan broadside oculus complete her insistence that she did not spot immoderate diminution successful Biden's intelligence authorities during her clip supporting him. (Screenshot/"Talk Easy pinch Sam Fragoso" )

Fragoso pressed Warren further, expressing skepticism complete her not seeing immoderate diminution successful Biden during his clip successful office. 

"The point is," Warren began uncertainly. "Look, he was sharp. He was connected his feet. I saw him... unrecorded event. I had meetings pinch him a mates of times..."

"Senator, ‘on his feet’ is not praise," Fragoso argued. "'He tin speak successful sentences' is not praise." 

Warren seemed to softly laughter astatine his comments while replying, "Fair enough."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Warren for further comment.

Former President Joe Biden. (Anna Moneymaker)

Warren defended Biden’s "sharpness" past twelvemonth erstwhile interviewer Hasan Minhaj mocked Biden’s property connected a podcast recorded earlier Biden’s infamous statesmanlike debate against President Donald Trump.

"I talk to nan man," Warren said. "The man is sharp. The man knows what he’s talking about. He does nan job. I deliberation group inquire astir age, they’ve sewage each right. Look, voters tin inquire astir thing they want. They tin make immoderate decisions based connected thing they want. That's nan deal." 

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She continued, "It's a sharpness and a pointedness astir what he is trying to execute and to me, I get it. It's for illustration messaging. You tin person different issues you want to look at, but nan bosom of it is what does he deliver. He is delivering."

Warren called Biden "sharp" earlier his wide panned statement pinch President Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

After nan debate, Warren was little certain successful her defense of Biden, repeating connected MSNBC successful July that he was "our nominee" but added that he had a "big determination to make" complete whether he should enactment successful nan race.

Biden dropped out of nan title 1 time aft her MSNBC interview.

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