Former Obama adviser David Axelrod referred to as out President Biden for his post-debate interview with ABC Information’ George Stephanopoulos and accused him of “denial, delusion and defiance.”
“Biden might be excused for wanting to place his terrible debate efficiency within the rear view mirror. That was his objective Friday in sitting down for the interview — to attempt to quell the panic that has gripped the Democratic Celebration,” Axelrod wrote in a CNN op-ed. “He didn’t succeed.”
President Biden informed Stephanopoulos on Friday that he was one of the best individual to beat Donald Trump in November and that he would solely drop out if the “Lord Almighty” got here down and informed him to.
The political operative wrote, “Denial. Delusion. Defiance.” The headline to the piece learn, “Biden’s defiant delusion.”
“The stakes are as nice as Biden describes. And if he believes it, as I feel he does, he’ll ultimately do what obligation and love of nation requires, and step apart,” Axelrod stated.
President Joe Biden stands at his podium throughout the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections between himself and former president Donald Trump at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Publish by way of Getty Photographs)
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“If he doesn’t, it is going to be Biden’s age, and never Trump’s ethical and moral void, that may dominate the remainder of this most necessary marketing campaign and sully the president’s historic legacy,” Axelrod wrote.
Axelrod took purpose at totally different moments throughout the ABC interview, together with his reply to a query about whether or not he watched the talk afterward.
“I do not suppose I did, no,” Biden informed Stephanopoulos.
“When Stephanopoulos requested the president if he would take an unbiased medical analysis, full with neurological and cognitive exams and launch the outcomes, Biden demurred and deflected,” Axelrod wrote, taking purpose at his responses to the ABC Information hosts’ questions on a cognitive examination.
President Joe Biden participates within the CNN Presidential Debate on the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. President Biden and Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump are dealing with off within the first presidential debate of the 2024 marketing campaign. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)
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Axelrod stated Biden was headed for a “landslide defeat to a lawless and unpopular former president.”
ABC’s Jon Karl had comparable considerations and stated Friday that the interview did little to calm the nerves of Democrats.
“Look, Biden regarded higher and definitely extra coherent than he regarded throughout the debate, however there’s nothing on this interview that’s calming nerves of jittery Democrats who worry that Joe Biden is on a trajectory to lose this race, to lose to Donald Trump,” Karl informed Stephanopoulos after the interview.
“In reality, for a few of these folks, the interview is elevating new considerations, significantly the truth that he’s unwilling or unaware of the truth that he’s in a dire scenario right here concerning the marketing campaign, that he’s shedding, within the view of many Democrats and admittedly within the polls you cited, that he’s shedding to Donald Trump,” he stated.
