On Friday’s CNN News Central broadcast, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, said President Joe Biden has no plans to “go out and campaign. , they don’t have the normal physical strength to hold one meeting after another, or to hold meetings.” Conversation after conversation. ” But despite “still having a price crisis,” he is capable of carrying out his job as president and is doing it very well.
Mr Smith said: I’ve attended meetings with him, talked on the phone with him, and discussed incredibly complex and important topics, the ones we just discussed here. And he talked about some very complex situations that we talked about, like what’s going on in Israel and Gaza, what’s going on between Russia and Ukraine, how to deal with the southern border. I never felt like I didn’t have it completely figured out. There was never a moment where I thought maybe he didn’t know what was going on. Now, does he say the wrong words sometimes? surely. I was thinking on the way here, once, during an interview with Neil Kabuto, I called him Steve. I don’t know why I did that. I know what his name is. So I’m not as concerned about whether he knows what’s going on in the world, and from the interactions I’ve had with him so far, I’m pretty sure he does. ”
Co-host John Berman asked, “At this point, as you look around the country, are you confident that President Biden is the best Democratic candidate to defeat Donald Trump?” .
Smith replied: “I’m not kidding in one respect. It’s a challenge for him to be this old. That’s without a doubt. He’s more than capable of doing the job. He does it well. He’s doing it. He doesn’t have the normal physical strength to go out and campaign and go to rallies and rallies and talk after conversation. And that’s difficult in a campaign. But as I’ve said before, President Biden may not be the world’s greatest campaigner. He’s done a good job as president. It’s better to have someone who is good at campaigning but is not good at campaigning. However, it will be difficult to participate in that campaign and win.”
The barman then asked, “Is it because he’s so old?”
Mr. Smith replied: “I don’t know if that’s the cause or if there’s just a problem with the way he communicates or the way he campaigns. But obviously, yesterday’s press conference — as you said, I’m a Democrat. He’s a senior politician and has been doing this for a long time – it’s not the way you want to do it. I think you can all agree on that. He was angry. He was frustrated by what came out. There was no set clear agenda of, “Okay, here’s my explanation, this is what I’m doing.” And it didn’t work, there’s no doubt about that. It needs to be improved. But again, the most important thing is whether he is at the top of the economy. Look at how we got through. Everyone said we would be in a recession. It wasn’t. The price crisis continues today. We have to make housing more affordable. We have to make food more affordable, but he has come out of a pandemic, dealt with a series of international crises, negotiated very difficult situations in a very coherent way, and shaped policy. We have made progress. For now, there is no doubt that he is capable of doing the job. Messaging is very complex. For those of you who have never run for office, I like to think of myself as a pretty articulate person. I’ve been doing this for many years, I’ve attended press conferences, I’ve been out on the streets. I shouldn’t have said that in the hall meeting I went to, but when I try to fix it, it just gets worse. It’s not as easy as it looks. ”
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