Overview

• His comments were previewed July 16 on former DNC chair Jaime Harrison’s new podcast, At Our Table.
• He said Democrats lost November’s election because they did not remain loyal to Joe Biden as party leader.
• He cautioned that without unified backing of a nominee, the party will spend the next three years fighting among itself.
• He refuted suggestions that he served as an informal chief of staff, noting he spent just 12 days in the White House over two years.
• He dismissed theories of a cover-up of his father’s cognitive or physical decline, saying secrets cannot be kept in Washington, D.C.