White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has sparred with Fox News' Peter Doocy over polls showing Americans believe President Biden's mental strength is declining.
At a press conference, Doocy asked Jean-Pierre about how more people are expressing concern about Biden's mental health ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
“Karine, why do you think polls show that more and more people feel that President Biden is becoming less and less mentally strong as time goes on?” Doocy asked.
“What poll is this?” Jean-Pierre replied.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre answers questions from FOX News' Peter Doocy. (Fox News)
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“Since May, ABC has lowered President Biden's health rating by five points and his mental acuity rating by four points,” Doocy revealed.
She responded, “You know, I have to say that's a little confusing to me, because if you look at what this president has done over the last three years, you've seen historic legislation. Right? When it comes to bipartisan infrastructure deals, a lot of presidents have said before, just like your favorite presidents–”
“Who is my favorite president?” the fool interjected.
Jean Pierre said: “Why not … why not let the American people guess?”
They went back and forth for a few seconds, then he pressed her to further explain what she had said.
“I don't know what you mean,” Doocy said.
“Let me, let me finish it. Let me finish it. Let me finish it,” Jean-Pierre insisted.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attends the daily press conference at the White House on January 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“And you know who I'm talking about. It was infrastructure week, infrastructure week, and it became a joke,” she continued, possibly before Trump. He mentioned several policies of the president and his administration. The development of infrastructure initiatives has stalled.
“And now we are entering the decade of infrastructure thanks to this president,” Jean-Pierre commented. “There's the Chips and Science Act, right? There's the Inflation Control Act. Those are laws.” [sic] Will it make a difference for generations to come? And this is what this president has done. It's very astute that this president was able to do that. ”
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She also boasted about the state of the economy under the Biden administration.
“Look at the economy. The economy is in a better place today than it was when he took office, with an unemployment rate of less than 4 percent and 14 million jobs created. It's just… It's true, it's just data, and we said, “Consumer sentiment is up and we saw people spending more in December, but we haven't seen anything like this for a while.'' I did,” she said.
Peter Doocy and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre discussed Biden's mental fitness on Monday. (Getty Images)
“So I think in order to get that kind of thing done, we needed a president like President Biden, someone with senatorial experience, someone who obviously served as vice president under President Obama; And he's a guy who's been a pretty effective president in the recent past, “three years,'' Jean-Pierre said.
Following that exchange, Jean-Pierre also spoke to Doocy regarding the border crisis, in light of Fairfax County releasing an illegal immigrant accused of sexual abuse of a minor despite being in ICE custody. responded to the question.
Mr. Doocy also tried to pinpoint the press secretary at what week of pregnancy Mr. Biden believes abortion should be legal.
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