‘I don’t want to answer that’: Rep. Bush dodges question on second Biden term

Rep. Cori Bush, a member of the progressive “Squad,” refused to reply whether or not she would again President Biden if he runs for a second time period. 

“I don’t need to reply that query as a result of we now have not — that’s not — yeah, I don’t need to reply that query,” ​Bush (D-Mo.) mentioned Monday in an interview with KSDK ​at her marketing campaign workplace ​in St. Louis. “I imply, he’s the president, he has the proper to run for a second time period, completely.” 

However earlier than Bush might hedge, one in all her aides tried to hurry the interview, saying, ​”She’s obtained to go​.​” 

Bush, a first-term congresswoman, faces a pro-Biden challenger in ​state Sen. Steve Roberts within the Democratic major subsequent Tuesday.

In his marketing campaign, Roberts has painted Bush as being too far to the left and has criticized her vote in opposition to the president’s bipartisan infrastructure invoice. 

Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) mentioned, “I don’t need to reply that query” when requested if she would again President Biden if he determined to run for a second time period.

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​​”I help the president. Full cease,” Roberts ​advised the station. “I’m curious to know who Rep. Bush intends on supporting.”​

Host Mark Maxwell famous that ​Bush was scheduled to seem at an occasion instantly after the interview.

And because it ended, her aides rushed her out to a ready automobile. ​​

President Biden, 79, has not but confirmed that he'll run for a second time period in workplace.

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Biden, 79, whose job approval scores are hovering within the 30s, hasn’t mentioned definitively whether or not he'll run for re-election. ​

Bush isn’t the primary member of the “Squad” to draw back from popping out in help of Biden. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), in an interview on CNN final month, additionally dodged when requested about Biden, saying she’s concentrating on November’s midterm elections.

“Initially, I’m centered on profitable this majority proper now and preserving a majority this 12 months in 2022,” Ocasio-Cortez, who represents the Bronx and Queens, mentioned on June 12.

“So we’ll cross that bridge once we get to it,” ​the progressive lawmaker mentioned. “However I feel if the president has a imaginative and prescient, then that’s one thing actually we’re all prepared to entertain and look at when the time comes.”