Biden campaign pans GOP debate: ‘Party of losers’

by Jared Gans - 11/08/23 11:13 PM ET

President Joe Biden speaks during an event on the economy, from the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Biden campaign panned the Republican Party as a “party of losers” following the third GOP presidential debate Wednesday night.

Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a statement that a party would normally reflect and change its course after losing an election, referring to Tuesday’s elections in which Republicans had a disappointing performance.

“But in Donald Trump’s MAGA Republican Party, apparently you double down on the same extreme agenda that was soundly rejected last night in elections across the country,” she said. “That’s what we witnessed tonight: the entire Republican field once again embracing Donald Trump’s losing and extreme MAGA agenda of banning abortion, cutting Social Security and Medicare, and rigging the economy for the ultra-wealthy at the expense of working Americans.”

Chavez Rodriguez referenced the statement that Vivek Ramaswamy made about the state of the GOP during the debate, saying “the only thing that the American people agree with these MAGA Republicans on is that their extreme agenda has left them reeling as ‘a party of losers.’”

Ramaswamy in part blamed Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel for the party’s losses during the 2018 and 2022 midterms, 2020 presidential election and Tuesday’s 2023 elections.

Republicans were able to notch a victory with Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) winning reelection, but Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) comfortably won another term in a solidly red state in one of the most-watched races of the cycle.

Democrats also won control of both houses of the Virginia Legislature despite significant campaigning for Republican candidates by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), and an Ohio ballot measure to protect abortion rights up to the point of fetal viability passed by several points.

“We’ve become a party of losers, at the end of the day,” Ramaswamy said.

The Biden campaign highlighted Ramaswamy’s comment during the debate, tweeting a clip of his comment.

President Biden tweeted earlier Wednesday that the “extreme and dangerous MAGA agenda” is “out-of-step” with most Americans.

“We will continue to protect access to reproductive health care and call on Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law once and for all,” he said.