Dan Abrams Says ‘It May Not Be Bad Politics’ for Trump To Keep Complaining About Biden

Mediaite founder Dan Abrams argued it might not be “bad politics” for President Donald Trump to continue complaining about former President Joe Biden on Thursday, despite the criticism he receives for doing so.

Reacting to an NBC News report that revealed Trump had mentioned “Biden, his family, or his administration at least 580 times” in his first one hundred days in the White House, CNN host Abby Phillip played a video compilation of the president repeatedly complaining about his predecessor in just the last three days.

“Dan, Donald Trump seems to be coming to terms with the fact that the numbers are not looking good, that the places in the media that he usually turns to for positive coverage are not giving him that,” said Phillip. “Do you think that he’s taking in what that means in terms of how voters are seeing his actions? Or is he just kind of in the blame game?”

Abrams replied:

I don’t think he’s coming to terms with it. I think if you were to ask Donald Trump, he would say, “We’re doing great.” But the polls are pretty clear, and the best polling to look at isn’t just in isolation, it’s to look at the same poll taken at two different times, right?

So there’s another poll out from Pew, for example, recently that came out, one in April, one in February. He’s down seven points. So it’s clear that whatever the number is, he’s definitely down to some degree. But when it comes to the Biden stuff, yeah, it kind of sounds ridiculous when you listen to it again and again, clipped up like that, but it may not be bad politics. Meaning, I don’t think that’s the reason that he’s down. It’s not because he’s mentioning Biden. I think that he’s probably benefiting politically.

CNN political commentator and former Hillary Clinton spokesperson Karen Finney took a different view, arguing that Trump was “making virtually the same mistake that the Biden administration made, and that is ignoring what the American people are telling you.”

“They elected you to deal with inflation, you’ve done everything but,” she said. “You have put your shoulder to the grindstone when it comes to Greenland and Panama and all these other things. What are you doing to lower costs? Zero.”

Watch above via CNN.