Go back to the basement, Joe.
That’s the opinion 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 in hiding,” 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’s something wrong with this campaign, where we somehow expected Joe Biden — and frankly, he was hiding during the last campaign — to start, [to] go out now and be Flash Gordon, and save this — its own campaign.
“People who benefit from the Biden economy, and they exist, should be empowered to speak,” he concluded.
Former White House communications director Kate Bedingfield disputed Jones’s opinion, saying: “I think Biden ran a very disciplined campaign. I thought – kind of ‘Oh, he’s hiding in the basement?’ Remember, we are in the middle of a global pandemic. We are in the midst of a once-in-a-generation crisis. And frankly, the way Joe Biden handled it convinced people, and was a big part of why he was elected president in 2020.”
President Biden has maintained a relatively light campaign schedule as Republicans roll out in the primary. Getty Images
Former Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod, a frequent critic of Biden’s re-election efforts, responded later in the segment, saying: “I think Joe Biden has done some very remarkable things, and that history will stand out. But the performance is a problem. And that is reflected in the polls. And what that translates into is an image of weakness.”
“There is a feeling that the world is out of control, and he is not in power. And that’s exactly what Trump did directly. And that’s what they have to defeat, in this campaign,” added Axelrod. “And they need a counter-narrative. And it’s not, ‘I’m a great president, he’s a bad president.'”
In 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 wanted others to lead the messaging.
Van Jones tried to warn his fellow Democrats that they were fielding a very weak candidate.”Trump’s strength, his resilience really mirrors Biden’s fragility. Republicans aren’t afraid of Joe Biden…even with 978 felonies, he’s still tough. with Biden.” pic.twitter.com/iLRJnwGeBi
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“They don’t think that putting someone this corrupt, frankly, this big of a deficit is going to hurt them at all — because the polls show over and over again that even with 978 felonies, he’s still tough on Biden.”
“There are some worrying signs for Trump,” Jones added. “There must be worrisome 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 several reports.
Biden has predicted former President Donald Trump will be his general election rival. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Biden’s team largely brushed off those complaints.
“We’re going to run like we’re behind,” Biden campaign co-chairman Cedric Richmond told reporters Wednesday. “Do we think we’re going to win? Of course.”
Trump has a 3.8 percentage point lead over Biden in the general election popular vote, according to the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate.
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