Fox & Friends: Biden Calling Trump a Convicted Felon Might Alienate the Convicted Felons of America

President Joe Biden referred to former President Donald Trump as a convicted felon for the first time on Monday, and the Fox & Friends co-hosts think that could cost him the coveted convicted felon vote.

On Tuesday morning, the Fox & Friends crew covered the story that during a closed-door fundraiser, Biden took a harsher tone when describing the ex-president, who reportedly said: “Folks, the campaign entered uncharted territory last week. For the first time in American history, a former president that is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of the presidency. This isn’t the same Trump who got elected in 2016. He’s worse.”

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt was quick to point out that the guilty verdict that was handed down to Trump on Thursday (on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records) only motivated his supporters more and earned Trump a record fundraising haul.

But co-host Brian Kilmeade thought that Biden’s remarks were a misfire when it came to other convicted felons:

You know, what’s also risky? And believe it or not, I got this in The New York Times. I didn’t realize this, but there’s so many convicted felons out there that maybe they had an addiction or they feel they were unjustly charged, or they had a indiscretion in their younger life, and they feel as though, you know, not being able to vote — even though the president can vote in Florida — not being able to vote, not being able to travel to certain places. This is a scarlet letter they live with. And the number’s like 70 million. And when you start ripping the president, “you’re a convicted felon, you’re a convicted felon,” are you… There’s a question now: Are you alienating a lot of those people who say this case doesn’t make any sense. And this happened to me whether it was legitimate or not, whether you were found innocent or not, whether you had an indiscretion. But you’re now in your 60s and 70s and you still got this hanging over your head, and your kids are embarrassed, your family’s embarrassed.

Co-host Lawrence Jones added:

These were supposed to be the Democrats’ people. They said for years they were advocates for the felons to be able to vote. Now because Donald Trump and then, we don’t want felons to vote. They said that they don’t want nonviolent offenders to be behind bars. Now because it’s Donald Trump, he should be jailed. They, in an effort to get Donald Trump, they are flipping on every single issue that they that they believed at one point.

Watch the video above via Fox News.