Politico columnist Jonathan Martin blasted President Joe Biden on Monday for crude comments reportedly made in private against former Obama aid David Axelrod.
“Calling David Axelrod ‘a p—-,’ as a person who has heard Biden use the word says he does in private, is not a strategy to win 270 electoral votes. And repeating a PG version of the same animus in public while litigating polling with the White House press corps also won’t make Biden’s re-election any likelier,” Martin wrote in Politico.
Last week, Axelrod made headlines for suggesting it may not be wise for Biden to seek reelection with the deluge of bad polling and his hemorrhaging of support from key voter demographics like Black Americans.
Biden has received a number of bad polls recently, including battleground polling from The New York Times and CNN. Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy confronted Biden on the polling last week.
“Because you don’t read the polls — there are 10 polls — eight of them I’m beating him in. You guys only do two. CNN, New York Times, check it out. We’ll get you a copy,” Biden responded.
Martin said the biggest causes for concern among voters and “Democratic elites” were Biden’s age and the cost of living.
“For Biden to use fundraisers, as he did Thursday, to deny his difficulties and complain about press coverage may be therapeutic, but it doesn’t make him any likelier to defeat Trump once more,” Martin added.
“The oldest president in history when he first took the oath, Biden will not be able to govern and campaign in the manner of previous incumbents. He simply does not have the capacity to do it, and his staff doesn’t trust him to even try, as they make clear by blocking him from the press. Biden’s bid will give new meaning to a Rose Garden campaign, and it requires accommodation to that unavoidable fact of life,” Martin continued.
Axelrod told CNN on Sunday that the president’s “age issue” was the one thing hanging over him.
“The one number in the polling that was concerning, and in the CNN poll that followed after The New York Times poll, had to do with age, and that is one thing you can’t reverse no matter how effective Joe Biden is behind the scenes. In front of the camera, what he’s projecting is causing people concerns, and that is worrisome,” Axelrod said.
More over at Fox News:
Biden calls David Axelrod a 'p—-' in private as ex-Obama adviser voices election concerns: report https://t.co/z2rmB01Rfs #FoxNews
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