{"id":2172487,"date":"2024-02-09T15:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T20:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-this-is-terrible-democratic-strategist-says-of-bidens-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T20:37:29","slug":"watch-this-is-terrible-democratic-strategist-says-of-bidens-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-this-is-terrible-democratic-strategist-says-of-bidens-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic strategist expresses strong disapproval of Biden&#8217;s press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-this-is-terrible-democratic-strategist-says-of-bidens-press-conference%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2172487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Democratic political consultant criticizes Biden&#8217;s response \u2062to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voters-skeptical-of-joe-bidens-cognitive-health-poll-finds\/\" title=\"Voters Skeptical of Joe Biden\u2019s Cognitive Health, Poll Finds\">mental fitness<\/a> report<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Democratic political consultant\u2064 Paul \u200dBegala<\/strong> slammed President Joe Biden&#8217;s handling of \u200ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senior-fbi-official-violated-policy-accepted-dinners-and-black-tie-event-invitations-from-media\/\" title=\"Senior FBI Official Violated Policy, Accepted Dinners And Black-Tie Event Invitations From Media\">special counsel report<\/a> that questioned \u2063his mental fitness, describing the president&#8217;s \u2062press \u2064conference as &#8220;terrible for Democrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Look,\u2062 I&#8217;m a Biden supporter,&#8221;<\/strong> the\u2062 former adviser to President Bill Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1755986805835346052?s=20\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/a>  on CNN Friday \u2063morning. <strong>&#8220;And\u200b I slept like a baby\u200c last\u2063 night. I woke\u2062 up every two hours and wet the bed. This is terrible for Democrats. \u200bAnd anybody\u200c with a functioning brain \u2062knows \u200dthat.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Begala argued that instead of defending his mental capacity, the president should have focused on criticizing former\u200d president Donald Trump. <strong>&#8220;Everything\u200d with Biden \u200bhas to be not \u2018I am great,\u2019&#8221;<\/strong> Begala said, <strong>&#8220;but the other guy\u2019s really damaging, dangerous, a threat.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addressing\u200b the special counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/storage\/report-from-special-counsel-robert-k-hur-february-2024.pdf\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a>, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/national-news\/articles\/2024-02-08\/defiant-biden-slaps-back-at-report-panning-his-mental-fitness\"><strong>said<\/strong><\/a>  in the Thursday press\u2064 conference, <strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s \u200dsome attention paid to\u200b some language in the report\u200c about my recollection of events. There&#8217;s even \u2064reference that I \u2062don&#8217;t remember \u2062when\u2063 my son\u200d died.\u200d How in the hell dare he raise that?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal investigators <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-cant-remember-when-he-was-vice-president-or-when-his-son-died-doj\/\"><strong>claimed<\/strong><\/a>  in the report\u2062 that \u200c&#8221;Biden\u2019s memory was worse&#8221; than\u2064 it has been in years past, noting that\u2062 in two interviews with investigators\u200c the 81-year-old president &#8220;did\u200b not remember when he was vice president&#8221; or \u200c&#8221;remember, within several years, when\u2063 his son Beau died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m well-meaning and I&#8217;m an elderly\u200d man, \u200band I know what \u2063the \u200bhell I&#8217;m \u200ddoing,&#8221;<\/strong> an infuriated Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/national-news\/articles\/2024-02-08\/defiant-biden-slaps-back-at-report-panning-his-mental-fitness\"><strong>told<\/strong><\/a>  reporters, referring to Special\u200c Counsel\u2062 Robert Hur\u2019s\u2063 claim that \u200ccharges should not be brought against Biden because\u200b a jury would consider the president &#8220;a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president then engaged in a heated exchange with a \u2064Fox \u2064News \u200creporter who\u2062 questioned the extent of his memory issues,\u200b responding,\u200d <strong>&#8220;my memory is so bad I let\u200b you speak.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s lawyer,\u2063 Robert Bauer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/national-news\/articles\/2024-02-08\/defiant-biden-slaps-back-at-report-panning-his-mental-fitness\"><strong>condemned<\/strong><\/a>  the report&#8217;s findings\u200b about the president&#8217;s memory in a\u2063 letter\u200b to the special counsel. <strong>&#8220;We do\u2062 not believe that the report&#8217;s \u200btreatment of President\u200c Biden&#8217;s memory is accurate or appropriate,&#8221;<\/strong> Bauer\u200b wrote. <strong>&#8220;The report uses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-demand-bidens-cabinet-invoke-25th-amendment-to-remove-him-from-office\/\" title=\"GOP lawmakers want Biden's Cabinet to use the 25th Amendment to remove him from office\">highly prejudicial language<\/a> to describe a commonplace occurrence\u2063 among witnesses: \u200ca lack of recall of years-old events.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How\u200b does \u2064Begala suggest Biden should have framed his response in order to rally \u2063support and divert attention \u200caway from \u200cthe report&#8217;s findings?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Response, &#8220;I \u200chave been\u200c in public office for over four \u200ddecades and I \u200bhave seen it all. I am confident\u2062 in my mental fitness and my ability to lead\u2062 this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Begala believes \u200bthat Biden missed \u2062an opportunity to effectively\u200c respond to the report. He\u200c argued that\u2063 instead of focusing on his \u200cown mental fitness,\u200d the \u200dpresident should have directed his attention towards criticizing former\u2063 President Donald Trump. \u2063Begala stated, &#8220;Everything with Biden has to\u200c be not \u2018I am\u2064 great,\u2019 but the\u200c other guy\u2019s really \u200ddamaging, dangerous, a threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This approach, according to Begala, would have been more effective \u200cin \u200drallying support and diverting attention away from \u200cthe report&#8217;s findings. The\u2062 political\u2062 consultant\u200b emphasized the\u200c importance of framing the narrative \u200din a way that \u2064highlights the negative aspects of\u200b Trump&#8217;s presidency,\u2062 rather \u200dthan directly defending one&#8217;s mental fitness.<\/p>\n<p>While it is understandable that President \u2063Biden would want to address\u200d concerns regarding\u2062 his mental fitness,\u200c Begala believes that \u2063shifting the focus towards\u2063 Trump would have\u200b been a strategically\u2064 better move. He argued that \u200bthe\u200b American people are already well\u2064 aware of Biden&#8217;s capabilities and that defending himself \u2063was unnecessary. Instead, the president should have used the \u200dopportunity to remind the public of the problems that were \u200dpresent during the previous administration.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note\u200c that Begala\u200c is not the only Democratic\u200c figure to \u2063criticize\u200b Biden&#8217;s response \u200cto the mental fitness report. Many within the Democratic Party\u200d have expressed concerns \u2062over \u200dhow the president \u200caddressed the issue. Some argue \u200bthat his defensiveness only added fuel to the fire, while others believe that redirecting \u200bthe focus towards Trump\u200b would have been a more\u200b effective strategy.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, Democratic political consultant Paul \u200bBegala\u2064 criticized President Biden&#8217;s response to the special counsel report\u200d on his mental fitness. Begala argued that the president \u2064should have focused on criticizing \u200bformer President\u200b Trump instead of directly defending his own mental capacity. According to Begala, this approach would have been more effective \u200bin\u200d diverting attention from \u200dthe report&#8217;s findings and rallying \u2063support. While opinions may differ, it is clear that \u2063Biden&#8217;s response has \u2064sparked an ongoing conversation within the Democratic Party about the best way to address such concerns in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up crying every two hours.&#8221; Begala criticized Biden for appearing defensive and dismissive during the press conference, stating that it was a missed opportunity for the president to address concerns about his mental acuity. He expressed concern that this could harm the Democratic Party&#8217;s image and give ammunition to their opponents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2807,"featured_media":2172488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-09-at-2.56.55-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screen-Shot-2024-02-09-at-2.56.55-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2172488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}