Ex-Obama official turned CNN commentator Van Jones urged Joe Biden to stay hidden from the public, similar to what he did in his 2020 campaign, because he lacks public communication skills.
“If I were Biden, I would stay hidden,” Jones said on CNN.
“I will tell you why. He doesn’t inspire confidence. He is not a great messenger for himself.”
Jones also criticized Biden’s campaign, arguing that he should be letting his so-called “economy” speak for itself.
“Union members, union leaders are racking up win after win,” he said.
“They should be put forward. There are clean energy executives in red states that are putting people to work.”
“There’s something wrong with this campaign where we are somehow expecting Joe Biden — frankly, he hid during the last campaign — to just somehow come out and be Flash Gordon and save his own campaign,” Jones continued.
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“The people who are benefiting from the Biden economy — and they exist — should be empowered to speak.”
Jones served as special adviser to President Obama on green jobs before he resigned in 2009.
As we reported last month, former Obama official David Axelrod predicted the possible rematch with former President Trump will be “trench warfare.”
“They will spend more time talking about Donald Trump than Joe Biden, and he will be spending a lot of time talking about Joe Biden,” Axelrod said.
Axelrod said he cared about Biden defeating Donald Trump more than whether he is liked within pro-Biden circles.
“I’m at a stage in my life where I don’t really give a s–t,” Axelrod said in an interview with Politico.
“I’m 68. You know, everybody in Washington sort of thinks that the most important thing is that the president likes you and that you get invited to parties and s–t like that. I’ve been to plenty of parties. I worked in the White House. That’s not the thing.”
Earlier this month, former 2020 Biden campaign advisor Symone Sanders-Townsend called on Joe Biden 3024 campaign to drop the “Bidenomics” message.
“They are not going to get ‘Bidenomics.’ Let it go,” Sanders-Townsend told Politico.
“How about you just make sure they know what you’re going to do and what you did?”
“You can give folks all the numbers about GDP and all these other things, but the data doesn’t move people. Stories move people,” she added.
Sanders-Townsend claimed that voters haven’t seen Biden “do what he can do best,” such as taking questions from voters in a town hall setting.
According to a national survey produced for ABC by Langer Research Associate, Biden’s approval rating sits at just 31%
The poll found 58% of respondents disapprove of Biden’s job so far as president.
According to ABC News, the figures are worse than Trump’s lowest in office, which was 36%.
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