Former Obama speechwriter says Biden’s choice to run once more was a ‘catastrophic’ mistake

Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau mentioned Friday on the “Pod Save America” podcast that President Biden’s choice to run once more was a “catastrophic mistake,” and took purpose on the Biden-Harris marketing campaign’s messaging all through the race. 

“Joe Biden’s choice to run for president once more was a catastrophic mistake. It simply was. He and his interior circle, they refused to imagine the polls, they refused to imagine he was unpopular, they refused to acknowledge till very late that anybody could possibly be upset about inflation,” Favreau mentioned throughout the podcast. 

Favreau mentioned the outcomes of the election together with his fellow “Pod Save America” hosts and defined that Biden repeatedly touted a traditionally robust economic system because the candidate and added, “clearly, 70, 80% of voters do not imagine that.”

“After which after the controversy, the Biden individuals instructed us that the polls had been tremendous, and Biden was nonetheless the strongest candidate. They had been privately telling reporters on the time that Kamala Harris could not win. So that they had been shivving Kamala Harris to reporters whereas they instructed everybody else, ‘not a time for an open course of,’” Favreau continued. 

Jon Favreau, former chief speechwriter for President Barack Obama, speaks throughout the Politicon conference contained in the Pasadena Conference Heart in Pasadena, California, U.S., on Saturday, July 29, 2017. In the course of the third annual Politicon pundits, politicians, comedians and entertainers collect to debate points that contact all sides of the political spectrum.  (Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs)

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Favreau additionally pointed to the Biden marketing campaign’s inner polling numbers. 

“Then we discover out when the Biden marketing campaign turns into the Harris marketing campaign, that the Biden marketing campaign’s personal inner polling on the time after they had been telling us he was the strongest candidate, confirmed that Donald Trump was going to win 400 electoral votes,” Favreau added.

The president repeatedly dismissed polls displaying he was trailing President-elect Donald Trump all through the race. Previous to dropping out the race and following a tough debate efficiency, the president instructed ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that pollsters instructed him the race was neck-and-neck.

“All pollsters I discuss to inform me it is a toss-up. And after I’m behind… there’s just one ballot I am actually far behind, CBS ballot and NBC, I imply, excuse me,” Biden mentioned on the time. 

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks on the Nationwide Affiliation of Latino Elected and Appointed Officers (NALEO) at Swissotel in Chicago, on June 24, 2022.  (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP through Getty Photographs)

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Tommy Vietor, a co-host of “Pod Save America” pointed to polling that confirmed voters thought Biden was too previous for a second time period forward of the controversy, and shared a number of moments the place the president fell brief whereas campaigning for Harris. 

Dan Pfeiffer, one other co-host of their podcast, argued that Biden would have accomplished worse within the election than Harris did.