Brian Kilmeade Insists Biden Did ‘Fine’ at Press Conference — And That’s ‘The Worst Possible Scenario for Democrats’
Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade argued Friday that President Joe Biden’s “fine” performance in his solo press conference was the “worst possible scenario” for Democrats seeking to replace their 2024 presidential candidate.
Despite the “typical Joe Biden miss-up” that the electorate have come to expect, Kilmeade argued that the press conference “didn’t blow” and puts the anti-Biden contingent within the party, who wanted him to fail, in a more difficult position.
Leading up to Kilmeade’s take, co-host Steve Doocy suggested that the presidential debate that sparked the political crisis over Biden’s candidacy set “the bar so low” that the president “did just enough” to convince supporters that he was up to the job – leaving liberal critics in “purgatory.”
Doocy said: “Get out the popcorn and watched it last night. It was just… and so today we’re the post-game show. A lot of Democrats who want him to go wanted him to really blow it.”
He continued: “And he did… he made a lot of blunders. And there were a number of gaffes. That’s why the New York Post, right now, the headline says: ‘Bumbling Biden Gaffes His Way Through Make Or Break Q&A. Any Dem convinced? Blunder of the World.’ But it is like a purgatory because they wanted him to blow it and he did just enough because the bar is so low.”
Kilmeade interrupted: “I think he did fine. I thought he did fine.”
The take prompted laughter from Doocy, but his co-host pressed on: “I’m telling you. If this was just a press conference, we would have said: ‘Oh, look, he made two mistakes. Alright.’ But this is the worst possible scenario for Democrats. Because he didn’t blow, he wasn’t clueless, there was no freezing moments.”
Kilmeade added: “I mean, there was a typical Joe Biden miss-up – saying that Donald Trump was vice president. Obviously terrible, but it’s typical of Joe Biden – when he announces he wants dead congresswomen to stand up and when he tells people their spouse is dead when they are alive, that’s what Joe Biden has been doing.”
“For fifty years,” Doocy quipped.
“But this is the worst scenario,” Kilmeade continued. “He says: ‘Hey, this is my view on NATO. This is my view on Afghanistan. This is my view on when I’m going to come back and win. I get up. When I get down, I stand back up again.’ To me, this is — he thinks he’s fine, he’s not going anywhere, his family doesn’t want him to go anywhere. [Democrats] are going to have to find leverage or extortion to kick him out.”
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