CNN arch-liberal Van Jones couldn’t hide his disappointment with Joe Biden for his weak, lethargic, ‘painful’ performance at his debate with Donald Trump.
Jones, formerly a Special Advisor to Barack Obama, has consistently had worries about the president.
In January, Jones said Biden should stay out of the limelight if he hopes to win the upcoming election because he ‘doesn’t inspire confidence’.
Even last year, the left-wing commentator said re-electing Biden would be like giving ‘grandpa a high-stress job for six more years.’
However, he appeared to have completely lost patience with the president after a performance that has his fellow Democrats in a full-blown panic.
CNN arch-liberal Van Jones couldn’t hide his disappointment with Joe Biden for his weak, lethargic, ‘painful’ performance at his debate with Donald Trump
Jones said that the moment Biden lost debate came in ‘the first three minutes’ as Biden appeared weak and raspy on camera.
‘That was painful. I love Joe Biden, I worked with Joe Biden, he didn’t do well at all, he did not do well at all,’ he said, adding that Biden lost the debate in the first three minutes.
Biden froze in the first 12 minutes of the debate, leaving Democrats into a panic about the state of their candidate. It was a terrible start for the 81-year-old president, who needs to convince voters he is physically and mentally fit for a second term.
Jones called the debate ‘the old man vs. the con man’ and tried to, as he put it, speak to his heart about a ‘good man, who loves his country, he’s doing the best he can.’
‘He had a test tonight to restore the confidence of the country, of the base and he failed.’
Jones said that there’s now a belief among Democrats that they ‘want to see him consider taking a different course now’ and claimed the party had to ‘figure out a different way forward’ in time for the convention in August.
‘There is time for this party to figure out a different way forward, if he will allow us to do that, but that was not what we needed from Joe Biden and is personally painful for a lot of people,’ he continued.
‘It’s not just panic, its pain of what we saw tonight.’
Jones, formerly a Special Advisor to Barack Obama , has consistently had worries about the president
Jones called the debate ‘the old man vs. the con man’ in Trump (pictured) and tried to, as he put it, speak to his heart about a ‘good man, who loves his country, he’s doing the best he can’
Jones has worked with Obama but did meet with Trump during his presidency to discuss criminal justice initiatives.
It was a terrible start for the President, who needs to overcome voters’ concerns that he is too old for a second term.
The debate was car crash for Joe Biden.
The 81-year-old sounded hoarse and repeatedly clearing his throat as he jumbled his words, stammered and repeatedly excused himself as he struggled to make himself understood at multiple points. He is reported to also have a cold.
In response to a Medicare question, Biden produced a faltering, bumbling moment that’s likely to be repeated throughout the campaign: ‘We’ve been making sure we are able to make every single person eligible what I’ve been able to do with the Covid, excuse me, everything we have to do with…look… I finally beat Medicare…’ he trailed off.
Moderator Jake Tapper stepped in, telling him ‘thank you’ and turning to Donald Trump to let him speak.
Trump hit back immediately: ‘That’s right, he did beat Medicare, he beat it to death. And he’s destroying Medicare.’
Another serious fumble came when he talking about the number of billionaires in America and the situation on the border.
Trump repeatedly managed to hit back hard at the 81-year-old on the repeated fumbles.
The 81-year-old sounded hoarse and repeatedly clearing his throat as he jumbled his words, stammered and repeatedly excused himself as he struggled to make himself understood at multiple points. He is reported to also have a cold
‘I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either,’ the former president said at one point.
Biden struggled to make up ground from his shocking start.
He tried to hit Trump on the report the former president called dead American soldiers ‘suckers and losers’ and on his felony conviction in New York.
But Biden has been using those attack lines for months, and Trump again was ready for them, barely blinking as he hoped straight into Hunter Biden’s felony conviction and repeated that he was only the victim of a highly politicized persecution.
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