Senate Democrat says Biden will ‘do the right thing for the country’

    FILE - Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., speaks January 2024 (AP)

    Sen. John Hickenlooper, (D-CO), refused to say if President Joe Biden should continue as the Democratic nominee in the 2024 presidential elections.

    “If you’re trying to get me to take a position on whether he should continue his campaign, I will collectively avoid answering the question, just because right now, it’s a process of really listening,” Hickenlooper said Tuesday morning during a Carnegie Endowment event. “And most senators, and I think many House members, have been in their home states, trying to hear the broad array of opinions, which are of every single complexion. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a more complicated political environment in my life, so it’s probably not the right time for me to make news.”

    Hickenlooper added: “You can’t bemoan the fact that, you know, these are difficult decisions, or ‘these are not the circumstances I thought I’d be dealing with.

    “We’re going to make the decisions we can, the best decisions possible with the information we have. And I have great confidence, whatever President Biden decides, that he’ll do the right thing for the country.”