‘Pod Save America’ Host Calls Biden’s Choice To Run Again ‘Catastrophic’ | EUROtoday

“Pod Save America” host Jon Favreau slammed President Joe Biden’s resolution to run for a second presidential time period on a Friday episode analyzing Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to GOP President-elect Donald Trump.

“Joe Biden’s decision to run for president again was a catastrophic mistake,” the podcaster and former speechwriter for President Barack Obama stated. “It just was.”

Favreau accused Biden and “his inner circle” of refusing to consider polls indicating that the president was unpopular, and of failing to take the general public’s issues concerning the economic system severely.

“They just kept telling us that his presidency was historic and it was the greatest economy ever,” he stated.

He added, “Clearly, 70, 80 percent of voters don’t believe that. They don’t believe that about their own personal financial situation, but they just keep telling us that.”

The host additionally excoriated Biden’s marketing campaign for claiming “the polls were fine” after the president’s disastrous June debate in opposition to Trump — although, Favreau stated, the marketing campaign’s inside polling on the time “showed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes.” (A supply described as “close to Biden” disputed these numbers in a remark to Mediaite.)

In August, the pinnacle of Democratic tremendous PAC Future Forward revealed that its personal forecast fashions, whereas not as dire as the inner polling Favreau described, had solely put the chance of Biden profitable within the single digits previous to his stepping down.

Elsewhere within the episode, the hosts of the hit political podcast commented on the issue that Harris confronted because the eventual Democratic nominee after Biden stepped down in July —timing that left her with round 100 days to mount a marketing campaign.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) additionally laid blame on Biden in an interview with The New York Times printed on Saturday. She criticized the president not just for not dropping out earlier, however for instantly endorsing Harris and thus making it “almost impossible” to carry an open main for his alternative.

“The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary,” stated Pelosi. Harris would’ve nonetheless gained that main, the previous House Speaker maintained, however “may have been stronger, having taken her case to the public sooner.”