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Democrats may need the courage of a Hugh Scott moment

Democrats may need the courage of a Hugh Scott moment


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Hours after President Joe Biden’s feeble debate performance Thursday night that left voters across the country stunned, two of Pennsylvania’s most powerful Democrats, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), pushed back against calls for Biden to step down from his reelection campaign.

Shapiro appeared on MSNBC and CNN and was repeatedly asked if he thought Biden should step aside. He admitted repeatedly that Biden had a bad debate but said there was too much at stake with a possible Donald Trump presidency, so he reinforced his stance that Biden should not step aside.

During his appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe show, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) discusses his support for Joe Biden while also admitting the president’s debate performance was bad. (Screenshot by Salena Zito)

Fetterman admonished Democrats on X more bluntly, telling them to “chill the f*** out” and saying he “refused to join the Democratic vultures on Biden’s shoulder after the debate.” Also: “No one knows more than me that a rough debate is not the sum total of the person and their record.”

Both Shapiro and Fetterman, known individually for their straight talk and not pulling any punches, are not following the admirable example of a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, Republican Hugh Scott, a one-time Senate minority leader. In 1974, Scott and two other Republican leaders had the courage to visit embattled President Richard Nixon and tell him the Watergate scandal made impeachment imminent, and that he should resign.

Nixon announced his resignation the next day.

In this Aug. 7, 1974 file photo, Sen. Barry Goldwater, center, speaks to reporters after meeting with President Richard Nixon at the White House to discuss Nixon’s decision on resigning. Flanked by Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, left, and House GOP Leader John Rhodes of Arizona, right, Goldwater said Nixon has made “no decision” on whether to resign. The three top Republican leaders in Congress paid a solemn visit to Nixon, bearing the message that he faced near-certain impeachment due to eroding support in his own party on Capitol Hill. Nixon, who’d been entangled in the Watergate scandal for two years, announced his resignation the next day. (AP Photo)

David Urban, a former 2016 Trump campaign adviser and western Pennsylvania native, said you cannot tell voters to deny what they saw with their own eyes last night.

“People just cannot unsee what happened right in front of them,” said Urban, a CNN contributor who was at the debate Thursday night in Atlanta.

“I don’t think there is anyone with the political courage that Hugh Scott had to step forward to tell Biden it is time go,” he said, adding, “I can imagine if it were such a person like that, it has to be someone from his family.”

Jill Biden, the president’s wife, showed no signs of doing that when she took the stage with the president after the debate in front of supporters, gushing, “Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question.”

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Youngstown State University political science professor Paul Sracic said no Hugh Scott has stepped up because at least Nixon had someone palatable to both the president’s party and the general public as his vice president.

“The difference here is there’s no [Vice President] Gerald Ford,” Sracic explained. “There’s nobody, they don’t know who’s waiting in the wings who can actually defeat Trump.”

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