‘Not intending to cast doubt’: Psaki cleans up Biden election comments

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President Joe Biden wasn’t trying to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 midterm elections, White House press secretary Jen Psaki clarified on Thursday.

The president made many headlines during a nearly two-hour press conference on Wednesday, including when he said the midterm elections “could easily be illegitimate” and that “the increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in proportion to not being able to get these reforms passed.”

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