Back to the basement, Joe.
That’s the view of a former Obama administration official after former President Donald Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary on Tuesday.
“If I were Biden, I would stay hidden,” CNN pundit Van Jones said during the network’s election coverage. “And I’ll tell you why: He doesn’t inspire confidence and he’s not a great messenger for himself.”
Jones, a former special adviser for green jobs in the Obama White House, added that “there is something wrong with this campaign, where we somehow expect Joe Biden (and, frankly, he hid during the last campaign) to start, [to] Go out now and be Flash Gordon, and save this: his own campaign.
“The people who are benefiting from Biden’s economy, and they exist, should have the power to speak,” he concluded.
Former White House communications director Kate Bedingfield objected to Jones’ point, saying: “I think Biden ran a very disciplined campaign. I think… the ‘Oh, did he hide in the basement?’ kind of thing. Well, remember, we were in the middle of a global pandemic. We were in the middle of a once-in-a-generation crisis. And frankly, the way Joe Biden handled it was reassuring to people and was a big part of the reason he was elected president in 2020.”
President Biden has kept a fairly light campaign schedule as Republicans face off in the primaries. fake images
Former Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod, a frequent critic of Biden’s re-election effort, responded later in the segment, saying, “I think Joe Biden has done some really extraordinary things, and history will shine on them. But his performance is a problem. And that is reflected in the surveys. And what is translated is an image of weakness.”
“There is a feeling that the world is out of control and he is not in charge. And that’s what Trump is directly addressing. And that is what they have to defeat in this campaign,” Axelrod added. “And they need a counternarrative. And it’s not: ‘I’m a great president, he was a terrible president.’”
The previous hour, Jones had warned that Republicans “are not afraid of Joe Biden. They are not afraid.
Van Jones praised President Biden’s accomplishments, but wants someone else to lead the message.
Van Jones tries to warn his fellow Democrats that they are running an incredibly weak candidate. “Trump’s strength, his resilience is actually a reflection of Biden’s fragility. Republicans are not afraid of Joe Biden…even with 978 felonies, he is still neck and neck with Biden.” pic.twitter.com/iLRJnwGeBi
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“They don’t think that housing someone so damaged, so deranged with so many deficits is going to hurt them at all, because polls show time and time again that even with 978 felonies, he’s still neck and neck with Biden.”
“There are some worrying signs for Trump,” Jones added. “There have to be worrying signs for Democrats.”
Obama himself has privately worried that Trump has a very real chance of winning a rematch with Biden in November, according to multiple reports.
Biden has predicted that former President Donald Trump will be his rival in the general election. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Biden’s team has largely ignored those complaints.
“We’re going to run like we’re behind,” Biden campaign co-chairman Cedric Richmond told reporters Wednesday. “Do we think we are going to win? Absolutely.”
Trump has a 3.8 percentage point lead over Biden in the general election popular vote, according to the most recent aggregate from RealClearPolitics.
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