"In a new book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines," the former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre describes what she considers a betrayal of Joe Biden by the Democratic Party. "I watched Democratic leadership abandon, and in the end betray, a man who'd led our country through a pandemic and a time of historic political turmoil," she writes."
"Indeed, Jean-Pierre is so outraged by the often unnamed Democratic establishmentarians who maneuvered to push Biden to step aside as the Presidential nominee, during the summer of 2024, in the wake of his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump, that she has decided to leave the Democratic Party and become a political Independent."
"(Jean-Pierre, who served for more than two years in her role, which consisted of defending the Administration to the press and explaining its policies, also blames the Democratic Party because it "couldn't articulate the achievements of the Biden/Harris administration well enough.")"
Karine Jean-Pierre left the Democratic Party and became an Independent, citing what she calls a betrayal of Joe Biden by Democratic leadership. She asserts that party leaders abandoned a president who guided the country through a pandemic and political turmoil. She blames the party for failing to articulate the achievements of the Biden/Harris administration. She says unnamed establishment figures maneuvered to push Biden to step aside as the 2024 nominee after his poor debate performance against Donald Trump. Jean-Pierre served over two years as White House press secretary and previously worked on Kamala Harris's 2020 vice-presidential campaign. She was the first openly gay and first Black White House press secretary.
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