Former Obama adviser David Axelrod warned Sunday that President Biden’s “age issue” was consistent in the polls, adding that it was “the one thing” they can’t reverse, “no matter how effective” the president is behind it. of scene.
Axelrod joined CNN’s Dana Bash and former Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan on Sunday to discuss a possible third party led by Sen. Joe Manchin, DW.V., who recently announced he would not seek re-election in the Senate. .
Hogan said he would go a step further than Axelrod, who suggested last week that the president should consider whether it would be “wise” for him to drop out of the race, and said Biden might not be the Democratic Party’s strongest candidate.
“I’m not worried about the polls in a year. I mean, you have to look at them, analyze them and adjust them. But I was in a situation as Barack Obama’s strategist in 2011 where we were facing some difficult polls. The only worrying number in the poll, and in the CNN poll that followed the New York Times poll, had to do with age, and that’s something that can’t be reversed no matter how effective Joe Biden is behind the scenes. . . In front of the camera, what you project worries people, and that’s worrying,” Axelrod told Bash and Hogan.
Axelrod also said Hogan needed to do a better job preventing Donald Trump from getting the Republican nomination.
According to Axelrod, it doesn’t matter how affectionate Biden is behind closed doors but how he appears in public.Getty Images
Bash asked Axelrod how a third-party candidate could hurt Biden and help Trump, but also pointed to Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., who is challenging Biden in the Democratic primary.
“Look, I said what I said. I think there is a question hanging over him. The country is in a bad mood, there is no doubt. It’s hard to be a starter and he’s been in a bad mood since before he was elected. There are concerns about inflation, that is a problem. Those could be overcome. And I think with Donald Trump on the other end, he could still win this election. But the question of age is difficult. And so Phillips is trying to exploit that,” Axelrod said.
“I believe that Joe Biden will be the candidate of the Democratic Party. And now we are getting to the point of third parties. “My concern is that Donald Trump has a high floor and a low ceiling, and if you add a bunch of third-party candidates, he is much more likely to win the election,” he added.
Media pundits have repeatedly asked President Obama’s former adviser whether Biden should drop out of the race.
Axelrod worries that age combined with the possibility of a third-party candidate could be disastrous for Biden and Democrats. Getty Images
“I want you to consider what is best in terms of the goal that I know you are committed to, which is defeating Donald Trump. And if he believes, based not only on what’s in his heart, but what’s in the data and what he’s told, that he has the best chance to do it, then he should run. But you know, what irritates me a little bit, Wolf, is the notion that people who are worried ‘wet the bed,’” Axelrod told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday.
The CNN poll, released Monday, found that 74% of voters do not believe the president “has the stamina and acumen to be president.”
Only 47% of voters said they do not believe Trump “has the stamina and acumen to be president,” according to the poll.
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