Honestly, the fact that this interview aired is pretty shocking.
Biden’s interview with Erin Burrnett was devastating, the only saving grace the White House has is that nobody watches the network anymore.
After the interview, Obama’s former headman ripped into the President.
“I don’t understand this,” the famed Democratic strategist said. “I don’t understand all these months later, you know, I thought they spent $25 million mistakenly last fall touting Bidenomics and making the same argument that the president is making here.”
During the interview Biden was hit with hard facts. Instead of being empathetic or discussing what his plans were for the future he lashed out.
When Biden was confronted by the economy he declared that “we turned it around” and that the polls are wrong.
“The polling data has been wrong all along. You guys do a poll at CNN, how many folks do you have to call to get one response? The idea that we’re in a situation where things are so bad… When I started this administration, people were saying there’s gonna be a collapse in the economy. We have the strongest economy in the world. Let me say that again, in the world,” Biden said.
When Biden started his administration he claimed the economy was going to collapse and it was recovering. Then he told us that inflation was “transitory.”
During the interview Biden swiped at Americans over food prices claiming “they have the money to spend.”
CNN: “Grocery prices are up 30%+ … that’s a real day-to-day pain that people feel…”
BIDEN: “They have the money to spend!”
Then he repeats the debunked lie about Snickers bars and “corporate greed.” pic.twitter.com/3qJDyK1bvy
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Biden’s attitude ticked Axelrod off.
“It is absolutely true. The world was plunged into an economic crisis and America was plunged into an economic crisis by the pandemic and we’ve come back faster than almost any other country and he’s right about that. But that’s not the way people are experiencing the economy,” Axelrod told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
“They’re experiencing it through the lens of the cost of living. And he is a man who’s built his career on empathy. Why not lead with the empathy?”
He continued, “And I think he’s making a terrible mistake… If he doesn’t win this race, it may not be Donald Trump that beats him. It may be his own pride.”
