New York Times columnist and podcast host Elsa Klein called on President Biden to stop running for the White House and come out as a “hero.”
“Let me be clear: I like Biden. I think he’s been a good president. I think he’s a good president. I don’t like these conversations,” Klein said. said on friday on an episode of his podcast “The Ezra Klein Show.” “And I know a lot of liberals and a lot of Democrats are going to be furious with me because of this show.”
“This is painful, but I think Biden should find a way to step back as a hero,” he later added.
“The people Biden listens to, Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, Mike Donilon, Ron Klain, Nancy Pelosi, Anita Dunn, they need to make him understand this,” he continued. “Mr. Biden himself might come see it.”
Klain said Democrats should want to help Biden be a “bridge for the next generation,” noting that the president called himself that during his 2020 campaign.
“The party should help him find a way to be what he said he would be in 2020, a bridge to the next generation of Democrats,” Klein continued. “And I think Democrats should come together at their convention in August and do what political parties have done so many times before at their conventions: organize for victory.”
While Klain praised Biden’s accomplishments during his term, such as the Inflation Control Act, he also noted that the president is trailing in the polls and that the damning special counsel’s report stigmatizes Biden. He cited the recent disturbance caused by shoving. He was a sympathetic and well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. ”
“Are you saying it’s a creation of the media that people are worried about Biden’s age because the media keeps telling them to be worried about his age?” Klein said.
“If you’re really convinced of that in your heart, I hardly know what to say to you,” he added. “Poll after poll shows that 70 to 80 percent of voters are concerned about his age. This is not something people need the media to see.”
A recent poll conducted in response to the report found that 86% of Americans think he is too old for public office.
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