Critics claim Biden remains president 'in name only’ despite DNC vow to finish next 5 months of term strong

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, claimed Monday that President Biden at this point is "basically president in name only."

"Tonight, we are going to hear from President Joe Biden, who at this point is basically president in name only," Shanahan said in a video shared to X.

"You know, no matter what your opinion is of Joe Biden, if you love him or if you hate him or don’t really care, you have to realize that something feels very wrong about how the Democratic Party ran a full core pressure campaign to get him out of office after he won 14-15 million votes in the primaries," she said.

"Isn’t it strange how he bowed out because he didn’t feel like he could serve another four years, but somehow he’s OK to serve four more months as we face historic inflation, debt and war? Any impartial observer can look at that and realize the DNC machine did what they always do. They pushed someone out they couldn’t successfully puppeteer," Shanahan said. "So much for defending democracy."

At the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, Biden said he had "a lot to do" in the remaining five months of his presidential term.

Comparing himself to Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden said, "Like many of our best presidents, she was also vice president. That's a joke…"

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Biden appeared to be referencing how he served as former President Barack Obama's vice president.

"But she'll be a president our children could look up to," Biden continued. "She'll be a president respected by world leaders because she already is. She'll be a president we can all be proud of. And she will be a historic president who puts her stamp