Charlamagne tha God berated former Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison on Friday, criticizing him for his decision not to push former President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 election.

Harrison joined Charlamagne, comedian Jess Hilarious, and producer RaaShaun Casey (known as DJ Envy) on their radio show The Breakfast Club to discuss Harrison’s career after the DNC and the state of American politics.

Casey began to ask Harrison about the DNC’s role in influencing the choice of the Democratic presidential nominee before being cut off by the former chair.

“So there was always rumor that the DNC were the ones that, you know, quote unquote, picked who they wanted to be–” began Casey.

“Man, that’s a bunch of baloney,” shot back Harrison.

Charlemagne took issue with his statement saying, “Stop it, Jamie. That’s not baloney.”

The group spoke over each other, Charlemagne told Harrison, “You can tell the truth!”

The conversation continued:

HARRISON: Well, I am telling the truth. Tell me the power I have to pick? If I’m the DNC
chair, what power do I have to pick? Like people said, “well, you could have told Joe Biden to not run.” Like seriously?

CHARLEMAGNE: Yeah.

CASEY: Yeah.

CHARLEMAGNE: You could have said that.

HARRISON: I could’ve and–

CASEY: Nobody was against it during that time.

CHARLEMAGNE: You could have and should have.

HARRISON: I could have. And do you think he would have listened? This is the most powerful– no, Charlemagne–

CHARLEMAGNE: Time out. To your point, somebody did listen– he did listen to somebody finally. So everybody should have told him earlier, yes.

HARRISON: I think ultimately what the president saw was that this fight is actually tearing the party apart, and I don’t want that to be on me.

CHARLEMAGNE: Stop it, Jamie. You don’t– you’re not beholden to them no more.

HARRISON: No, it’s not about being beholden to them. I’m telling the truth.

CHARLEMAGNE: That man was too old. Everybody knew he was too old. He should have been a transitional president from the beginning.

HARRISON: Charlemagne, I get all of that. But you know what? Somebody should have stepped up. If people thought that Joe Biden was too old, then some real people should have stepped up and said, “You know what? I’m going to run.”

[CROSSTALK]

CHARLEMAGNE: But then they get their ass handed to them.

JESS HILARIOUS: What does that look like with no support?

CHARLEMAGNE: When a Dean Phillips does that y’all kick him out.

HARRISON: Look, is Dean Phillips serious?

CHARLEMAGNE: It don’t matter. No, Jamie, you’re acting like that is the normal process of things. Yes, just challenge the sitting president. You know y’all crucify people for that.

HARRISON: Well, what you telling me, you saying, “Well, that’s not normal.” And you saying, “Is it normal for the DNC chair to say, Mr. President, you need to sit down?”

CHARLEMAGNE: Yes. In that situation, yes.

HARRISON: No, no, it is not!

CHARLEMAGNE: If George Clooney can say it, if Charlamagne tha God can say it, if all of you people who not in politics can say it, but y’all– Jake Tapper’s book, I read the book, said President Biden walked up to you, shook your hand, didn’t even know who you were.

HARRISON: That’s a bunch of bullshit. That’s a bunch of bullshit.

CHARLEMAGNE: I don’t believe that, Jamie.

HARRISON: Well, why don’t you believe me?

[CROSSTALK]

CASEY: So what happened for people who don’t know what happened?

CHARLEGMAGNE: He said that– Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson wrote in their book Original Sin that Biden shook DNC Chair, at the time, Jamie Harrison’s hand and didn’t recognize who he was, and Jamie said he was lying.

HARRISON: I said that was bullshit because it was bullshit.

Harrison went on to say, “Yes. I mean he was damn old. But when you take a look at it, Charlemagne, when you look at what this man was trying to do, I’d rather take an old Joe Biden on a respirator right now than a goddamn Donald Trump right now who’s destroying this country.”

Charlegmane pointed out how that type of logic led to the election of Donald Trump.

“That type of rhetoric is exactly why y’all lost,” said Charlegmane. “And what I mean by that is America shouldn’t have to choose between a Donald Trump and an old man on a respirator. I shouldn’t have to choose between authoritarian regime, an authoritarian strategy, and an old man on a respirator.

“But Charlamagne, you can’t win something if you don’t have somebody in the contest to run against,” Harrison fired back.

“And if Joe Biden would have said, ‘Hey, I’m gonna be a transitional president. I’m only going to be here for four years,’ that would have gave you as DNC chair and the party a whole lot of time to pick a good candidate,” added Charlegmane.

Harrison responded, “But he didn’t, right?”

“He didn’t,” Charlegmane agreed.

“If I was 6’5 or 6’10, I’d be playing basketball right now and a million-dollar house. But I don’t, right? So that did not happen. So when that did not happen, then what you got to do is play with the cards– it’s like you playing spades, right?” said Harrison. “Man, if I would have gotten, you know, a deuce here and this and that, then I could have won that hand. Yo, you play with a hand that you dealt with, right? And so in the end of the day, Joe Biden decided to run. Nobody decided, of significance decided to challenge him. So, therefore, that is the horse that you have to ride.”

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