New York Times columnist David Brooks urged former President Joe Biden not to fight the “old battle” in a conversation Biden returns to the public this week this week.
Brooks told PBS Newshour that if Joe Biden had called him to ask what he should do with his host, he would tell the former president that “to be politically post-politics, get higher and higher, don’t come back, don’t try to fight the old battles”.
Biden spoke with the BBC and “views” after the 2024 election and blamed former Vice President Kamala Harris on gender discrimination and racism. He also answered questions about the so-called cognitive decline and insisted that he could have beaten Trump.
PBS Newshour host Geoff Bennett also asked Brooks if there is any strategic value, saying he would beat the current president after his former vice president failed.
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“You know, I think he's a crime about it. Kamala Harris ran a campaign as much as possible. She was upset with Biden's legacy, an unwelcome presidency. Biden, except for his age, would be haunted by that legacy.
In the interview, the former president opposed criticizing Harris for not having enough time to conduct an effective campaign, saying she had six months. The former vice president is about 90 days.
He continued: “But, frankly, he is a proud man with detritus on his shoulders and feeling attacked in the Democratic and Republican parties, so he wants to stand up for himself.”
The New York Times columnist also advised Biden should avoid partisan mud.
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“I would only consult him for being a long-time admirer of Joe Biden, and it is that what we want from the president is not more politics. What we want from the president is a post-political person who can speak to us at a higher level, not to speak to us in the partisan mud.
Biden and his wife, former first lady Jill Biden, were fired when under pressure from “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, allegations of cognitive decline in multiple new books on the 2024 election.
“They were wrong,” he said. “There's nothing to maintain, number one. You know, think about what we're left. We had a situation. When I started, we didn't have an uprising, not since the Civil War. We were in a situation. We were in a position where we – well, the pandemic, because the last person was incompetent, and ended up being a million people, we found a million people and we were in a situation where we were in a million. I wouldn't have problems with the benefit of time, so we went to the work and we were done, you know, I-I-I-I-
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The former first lady then jumped in and said, “I don’t think the person who wrote these books is in the White House.”
“And they didn't see Joe working hard every day. I mean, he'd get up. He'd put it all day and then at night he'd – I'd be in bed, you know, reading my book, he's still calling, he's still calling, he's still watching his briefing. Working with the staff. I mean, I mean, it's constant.”
