“Constant lying and gaslighting the public about Biden’s health has cost the Democratic Party the public’s trust. Rebuilding it first requires the courage and honesty to admit to what happened,” he continued.

Former DOJ official Xochitl Hinojosa called out Democrats on Tuesday for "lying to everybody" about Biden after the Hur report was released and the Democratic Party deemed it "gratuitous."

Former Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips said in an op-ed that he only ran for president in 2024 against then-President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary because no other big power players would.

Some Democrats on Sunday expressed a collective responsibility for the party's 2024 election loss amid concerns about former President Biden's mental fitness. The big picture: Audio obtained by Axios from Biden's October 2023 interviews with special counsel Robert Hur,

After Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and Representative Gerry Connolly’s death, some in the party want more elected officials, as one Democrat put it, to seek an earlier “escape hatch from politics.”

Scrutiny over former President Joe Biden’s decline is already testing 2028 hopefuls, particularly those who were involved in his administration. The announcement that Biden was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer on Sunday came amid a fresh reckoning in the party over the former president’s mental acuity and whether he should have withdrawn

The focus on the former president comes as the party needs to look forward rather than backward to exit the political wilderness.

In the final two years of his presidency, Joe Biden had private moments where he could not recall the names of top aides, had an increasingly limited private schedule, was prone to incoherence and losing his train of thought,

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) placed blame at the feet of the Democratic Party for supporting former President Joe Biden’s bid for reelection last year, arguing party leaders blinded by loyalty failed to listen to voters who wanted a “younger” candidate.

Democratic Party strategist James Carville said that former President Biden's decline was clearly apparent to him and most of the voting public prior to the 2024 election.