Progressives Retract 4-Month Old Letter Asking Biden to Negotiate With Putin
- ‘The letter was drafted several months ago,’ Jayapal says
- Timing was off: at the end of June Ukraine was on back foot
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Progressive House Democrats unleashed a furor in the party two weeks before the midterm elections by issuing -- and then retracting -- a letter urging President Joe Biden to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin for an end to the war in Ukraine.
The chairwoman of that wing of the party, Representative Pramila Jayapal, who has ambitions for congressional leadership, blamed the error on staff before taking responsibility herself.