House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) argued Sunday that he was doing “the right thing” when he and many Democrats supported President Joe Biden in the 2024 election cycle before the president suspended his reelection bid a few months before Election Day.

Jeffries was confronted by comments he made in a February 2024 appearance on The View, during which he claimed Biden was “the strongest candidate” to defeat then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. When asked what he would say to voters who felt as if he and other Democrats “misled” them on Biden’s ability to perform well in the 2024 election, Jeffries cited how Biden was the candidate “at the time,” as Biden made the decision to seek reelection.

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