The Washington Post editorial board said this week that Vice President Kamala Harris’ cover-up of President Biden’s mental decline is one of the reasons his party suffered major defeats on Election Day.

IN A published editorial On Friday, the board argued that Harris and the White House’s constant denial of Biden’s mental acuity problems destroyed the party’s “credibility” and Americans voted accordingly.

The caption read: “Democrats’ cover-up of president’s decline undermines their claim to be the party of truth.”

“The credibility problems that Ms. Harris’s defense of Mr. Biden’s accuracy repeatedly illustrated were part of the reason the Democrats were defeated,” the council wrote.

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The Washington Post editorial board argued that Vice President Harris and the Democratic Party’s concealment of President Biden’s cognitive problems was part of the reason the party lost the 2024 election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The op-ed began by criticizing Harris for denying special counsel Robert K. Hur’s assertion in February that Biden is “a nice, well-intentioned older man with a failing memory.” Hur did the assessment in his report in his investigation into the classified Biden documents.

“Vice President Kamala Harris did not call special counsel Robert K. Hur’s report ‘gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate’ when it came out in February. She claimed it was “clearly politically motivated” and challenged his integrity,” the newsroom recalled. , providing an example of how far prominent members of the Democratic Party would go to hide Biden’s health problems.

“Speaking to reporters, Ms. Harris reacted angrily: ‘The way the president’s behavior was characterized in that report could not be more wrong,'” the board wrote, adding that “Mr. Hur has been vindicated repeatedly during the intervening nine months. .”

The editorial continued: “It is now almost universally recognized that Mr. Biden should not have sought a second term, but the Democratic establishment denied the obvious and supported him politically, even as the evidence of his decline mounted.”

The party only admitted the truth when Biden’s debate performance forced it, the board explained, arguing that this late about-face revealed the Democrats’ credibility problems with the American people.

“Democrats have tried to make fidelity to science, facts and truth their hallmark as a party. The White House’s aggressive cover-up of Mr. Biden’s decline has undermined that claim,” the editorial said, further describing the extent of the cover-up. .

KAMALA HARRIS’ TOUGH RESPONSE TO BIDEN ‘PRESSURE’ SEEN AS CAMPAIGN POINT

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 11: Democratic presidential candidate, US Vice President Kamala Harris and US President Joe Biden attend the annual 9/11 Commemoration Ceremony at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum on September 11, 2024 in New York York City. USA (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

“Allies of Mr. Biden coined terms like ‘cheap fakes’ to dismiss embarrassing video clips in which Mr. Biden appeared dazed, confused, tired and inaudible. The president’s allies frequently labeled content they disapproved of as “disinformation.” shortening the deadline When a few journalists accurately reported on Mr. Biden’s decline, the White House gave others critical talking points about their stories.

“The harder they spun, the less believable they became,” declared The Post.

And even as Democratic figures acknowledged Biden’s problems in forcing him to forgo re-election, the editorial described how the Biden administration still “covered for him” “to the hilt.” He called the White House stenographers for change of transcript to try to lessen the damage of his “rubbish” comments in recent weeks.

“All of this damaged credibility. Polls showed that more voters believed Mr. Trump would follow through on his campaign promises than Ms. Harris did on hers,” the editorial said.

The piece clarified the Post’s belief that Harris’ apparent avoidance of candor about Biden’s health was not “the deciding factor in this week’s election,” but said it reveals that members of the Democratic Party need to “own up to their act as truths… to the housekeepers” to “revive their brand”.

The Harris campaign and the White House did not respond Fox News Digitalhis request for comment.

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