Biden's withdrawal from re-election campaign should make people 'disappointed and angry,' Sage Steele says

Former ESPN broadcaster Sage Steele tore into President Biden’s decision to withdraw from his re-election campaign more than three weeks after a disastrous debate with former President Trump.

Steele expressed her concerns about the United States and took a shot at the president’s family for allowing him to stay in the race.

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Then-ESPN Sportscaster Sage Steele discusses the agenda during the espnW Summit 2015 at St. Regis Monarch Resort on Oct. 14, 2015 in Dana Point, California. (Mpu Dinani/Getty Images)

Biden announced earlier Sunday he was ending his re-election campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the potential Democratic nominee. Statements from first lady Jill Biden and the president’s children followed after the announcement was made.

However, Steele was unhappy it had gotten this far.

"I think what we should be is disappointed and angry because it should never have gotten to this point in the first place," Steele said in a video posted to X. "And I don’t even mean since that debacle of a debate on June 27th when the mainstream media just magically decided to admit, ‘Wait, maybe he has some cognitive issues. Maybe he’s not fit to run for reelection. They were lying from top to bottom for years and covering up for him sadly.

"We should be so disappointed in his family, in his wife. How, as a spouse, could you allow your husband or wife to go ahead and proceed with something so big (and) so important when you know that as a human being, they are not OK? That, to me, is disgusting. That’s what I’ve been saying since I interviewed Joe Biden just a month or two after he took office. That was 3 1/2 years ago and I noticed in my interview before the conversation began that he was struggling.

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Then-ESPN anchor Sage Steele talks on set during Game Four of the NBA Finals between the Toronto Raptors and the Golden State Warriors on June 7, 2019 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. (Rey Josue II/NBAE via Getty Images)

"Regardless of party, this is heartbreaking happenstance, all of the things that have gone down. But shame on his family for not protecting the man that they claim to love."

Jill Biden said earlier this month she was "all in" on her husband’s re-election. She even scolded a reporter who asked whether her husband was dropping out.

President Biden was diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier this week, and while quarantining in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, he dropped the statement that he was ending the campaign on X.

"The right thing for America would have been to stop this charade a long, long time ago," Steele added. "But for a variety of reasons, I’m going to say first and foremost ego and power, you decided to stay on until now which does what? It completely screws the Democrat Party. So, if you truly do believe that America comes first and that Americans come first, you would’ve stepped away a long time ago or Jill Biden in 2020 never allow it to get to this point in the first place.

"Maybe most concerning is the fact that now our national security – we are as weak as we’ve ever been, at least in my lifetime. Weak and vulnerable. They have been watching. Things have been simmering a long time across the world as people who don’t like Americans or our way of life have been watching the weakness, the lack of leadership by Joe Biden and now what? Now, just for the next 5-6 months, he’s a lame duck? We are more vulnerable than ever. Look at what just happened in Pennsylvania just eight days ago."

President Biden speaks on Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, addressing news that gunshots rang out at Republican presidential candidate former President Trump's Pennsylvania campaign rally. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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The Democratic National Convention is about a month away, and it appears Harris is rallying support from Democrats.

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