Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is under fire after a revealing interview clip shows her struggling to defend past claims about Joe Biden’s mental sharpness—months after the President’s withdrawal from the 2024 race due to concerns over his cognitive decline. The moment came during a sit-down on Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, where the progressive senator was pressed directly on whether she regretted insisting, up until July 2024, that Biden was mentally fit to serve another term. The result was an unflattering and awkward exchange.

“Do you regret saying that President Biden had a mental acuity, he had a sharpness to him? You said that up until July of last year,” Fragoso asked.

“I said what I believed to be true,” Warren replied.

Pressed further—“And you think he was as sharp as you?”—Warren hesitated.

“Um… I said I had not seen decline. And I hadn’t at that point.” But the interviewer kept digging, asking whether she truly saw no difference between Biden in 2021 and Biden in 2024, when the president’s halting debate against Donald Trump was already raising red flags.

“Not when I said that,” Warren insisted. “He was sharp, he was on his feet. I saw him, live event, I had meetings with him a couple of times.”

Fragoso shot back, “On his feet is not praise. He can speak in sentences is not praise.”

“Alright, fair enough, fair enough. Alright, fair enough, fair enough. Look, it is, the question is, what are we going to do now?”

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Recently, former CBS producer Chris Whipple’s book Uncharted revealed that Biden’s top advisers had seen signs of trouble long before the July debate. In one passage, Biden’s longtime aide Ron Klain reportedly described the president as “fatigued, befuddled, and disengaged.”

According to the book, Biden cut debate prep short, then fell asleep by the pool just days before facing Trump onstage. Warren’s attempts to now revise the timeline of Biden’s decline—or downplay it entirely—are being blasted by critics as disingenuous.

The clip quickly became a symbol of what critics call the Democratic Party’s willful blindness in the lead-up to Biden’s July withdrawal from the 2024 race. The former President dropped out after his catastrophic debate performance against Trump, which highlighted long-standing concerns about his age and cognitive health. Biden’s exit set off a scramble within the Democratic Party and ended with Vice President Kamala Harris being nominated in his place.

Harris initially received a polling boost following Biden’s endorsement, but her campaign faltered down the stretch. Even Democratic heavyweights, like former CIA Director Leon Panetta, criticized Harris’s lack of energy and inability to connect with voters. Trump ultimately defeated Harris in the general election, returning to the White House for a second term.