CNN commentator and former Obama official Van Jones on Tuesday advised President Biden to hide from the public, as he did during the 2020 campaign, because he is not a good public communicator.
“If I were Biden, I would go into hiding,” Jones said. “I'll tell you why. He doesn't inspire confidence. He's not a good messenger for himself.”
Jones also criticized the president's campaign, saying that Biden “has contributed tremendously to this economy” and that others should be allowed to speak on Biden's behalf.
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CNN commentator Van Jones advised President Biden during Tuesday's debate to hide from the public as he did during the 2020 campaign because he is not a good public communicator. (Screenshot from CNN)
“Our members and union leaders are winning one victory after another,” he said. “They should be offered. Red states have clean energy executives who are putting people to work.”
“There's something wrong with this campaign. We're somehow going to let Joe Biden — who, frankly, was in hiding during the last campaign — somehow come out and turn into Flash Gordon and be himself.” That's what we hope will save his campaign,” Jones continued. “The people who are benefiting from the Biden economy, and they are, should be empowered to speak out.”
Jones briefly served as special adviser to President Obama on green jobs before resigning in 2009.
Former Obama official David Axelrod also weighed in on the Biden campaign during a CNN panel, predicting that a potential rematch with former President Trump would be a “trench war.”
“They're going to spend more time talking about Donald Trump than Joe Biden, and he's going to spend more time talking about Joe Biden,” Axelrod said.
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Axelrod has also repeatedly criticized the Biden campaign in public, deflecting critics who say his advice is unwarranted. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Axelrod has also repeatedly criticized the Biden campaign in public, deflecting critics who say his advice is unwarranted.
Mr. Axelrod said in early January that he was more concerned about Mr. Biden beating Mr. Trump than whether he was well-liked within the pro-Biden camp.
“I'm at a stage in my life where I'm not thinking about anything at all,” Axelrod said in an interview. Interview with Politico. “I'm 68 years old. Everyone in Washington thinks the most important thing is that the president likes you and gets invited to parties, but I don't like that. I go to a lot of parties. I worked in the White House, and that's not the case. ”
According to ABC News' latest poll, the media and Biden supporters within the Democratic Party are expressing concern about Biden's low popularity ahead of November, with the president's approval rating lower than that of any U.S. president in the past 15 years. It has plummeted to an all-time low. .
Biden's approval rating stands at just 31%, according to a national survey produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates and conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs with fieldwork through an online probability-based knowledge panel. The poll found that 58% of respondents disapproved of the job Biden was doing as president. According to ABC News, this would make his approval rating worse than the low of 36% during former President Trump's tenure. This is also the lowest level since the administration of former President George W. Bush in the mid-2000s.
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FOX News' Daniel Wallace contributed to this report.
