Former Obama strategist David Axelrod has held nothing back in his assessments of President Biden’s electability following his “woeful” debate performance against former President Donald Trump last month. Then, after Biden sat down for an interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos to try to ease Democrat concerns that he’s no longer the best person to lead the party to victory in the general election, Axelrod said in a column on CNN that “he didn’t succeed.” But on Sunday, the political commentator ‘twisted the knife,’ as the New York Post described it.
On CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Axelrod bluntly said Biden is “not winning this race.”
“If you just look at the data and talk to people around the country, political people around the country, it’s more likely that he’ll lose by a landslide than win narrowly this race,” Axelrod said of the 81-year-old president. “If the stakes are as large as [Biden] says, and I believe they are, then he really needs to consider what the right thing to do here is.”
Commenting on the president’s interview with Stephanopoulos, Axelrod said Biden seems out-of-touch with voter concerns about his age.
“What he can’t beat is Father Time, and that’s really the concern here,” Axelrod said. "Tom Brady won a Super Bowl three years ago and he's out of football now, okay? Why? It doesn't detract from his greatness or what he's done. It's just, there are certain immutable facts of life and those were painfully obvious on that debate stage. And the president just doesn't seem to come to grips with it."
Axelrod: There's More At Stake In 2024 Than Joe Biden's Feelings, "He's Not Winning This Race"https://t.co/Enbe6Tnf01
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"He's more likely to lose by a landslide than win narrowly. If the stakes are as large as he says... he really needs to consider the right thing to do here." pic.twitter.com/XR54LFadTd