Is President Joe Biden’s administration losing faith in his abilities to effectively convey his message? Democratic strategist James Carville believes so.
Carville told CNN that Biden passing up on the chance to participate in an interview during Super Bowl coverage is a huge red flag.
“It’s the biggest television audience, not even close, and you get a chance to do a 20, 25-minute interview on that day, and you don’t do it, that’s a kind of sign that the staff or yourself doesn’t have much confidence in you, there’s no other way to read this,” Carville said.
Biden is dealing with the fallout of a special counsel report that questioned his memory and cognitive abilities.
“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur wrote in the report.
“Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” he continued.
“My memory’s fine. … Take a look at what I’ve done since I became president. … How did that happen? I guess I just forgot what was going on,” Biden said at a Thursday press conference after the release of the report, though in the same conference, he confused the names of the presidents of Egypt and Mexico.