Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) admitted the Democratic Party has myriad problems it must address, suggesting that the focus needs to go beyond criticizing former President Joe Biden.

A soon-to-be-released book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson has renewed questions of Biden’s mental fitness and put multiple high-profile Democrats under scrutiny over their opinion of the former president’s abilities. Smith acknowledged that Biden’s inabilities were a “big part” of the Democratic Party’s 2024 election losses, but he contended that the party’s problems go “way beyond” the predicament of how the former president’s mental acuity was handled.