Nyt Columnist Urges Biden Not To Fight An 'old Battle' After Media Tour

New York Times columnist David Brooks urged erstwhile President Joe Biden not to conflict an "old battle" during a speech connected Friday aft Biden returned to nan nationalist oculus this week. 

Brooks told PBS NewsHour that if Joe Biden ever called him to inquire what he should do pinch his post-presidency, he would show nan erstwhile president to "be post-political, emergence supra it and don't get backmost in, don't effort to conflict aged battle."

Biden said to BBC and "The View" this week aft nan 2024 election, blaming erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris' nonaccomplishment on sexism and racism. He besides answered questions astir his alleged cognitive diminution and maintained that he could person beaten Trump.

PBS NewsHour big Geoff Bennett besides asked Brooks if location was immoderate strategical worth successful saying that he would person beaten nan sitting president pursuing his erstwhile VP's grounded attempt.

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New York Times' David Brooks appeared connected "PBS Newshour" to talk Biden's media tour. (Screenshot/PBS)

"You know, I deliberation he's empirically incorrect astir that. Kamala Harris ran astir arsenic bully a run arsenic she could. She was saddled pinch nan Biden legacy, an unpopular presidency. Biden would person been saddled by that bequest successful summation to his age. So, you return those 2 factors, it's difficult to spot really he wins," Brooks said.

The New York Times columnist besides suggested Biden should debar nan partisan mud.

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"I would only counsel him arsenic personification who's a longtime admirer of Joe Biden, is that what we want from our presidents is not much politics. What we want from our presidents is personification who's post-politics, who tin speak to america from a higher level, not successful nan partisan mud. And Jimmy Carter did that. I deliberation George W. Bush has done that done his painting," he said. 

When pressed by "The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin connected respective allegations of cognitive diminution successful aggregate caller books connected nan 2024 election, Biden and his wife, erstwhile first woman Jill Biden, fired back.

"They are wrong," he said. "There’s thing to prolong that, number one. Number two, you know, deliberation of what we near with. We near pinch a condition wherever we had an insurrection erstwhile I started, not since nan Civil War. We had a condition wherever we were successful a position that we — well, nan pandemic, because of nan incompetence of nan past outfit, extremity up complete a cardinal group dying, a cardinal group dying. And we’re besides successful a business wherever we recovered ourselves incapable to woody pinch a batch of conscionable basal issues, which I won’t spell into successful nan liking of time. And truthful we went to work, and we sewage it done and, you know, 1 of nan things that — well, I’m—"

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The erstwhile first woman past jumped successful and said, "one of nan things I deliberation is that nan group who wrote those books were not successful nan White House pinch us."

"And they didn’t spot really difficult Joe worked each azygous day. I mean, he’d get up. He’d put successful a afloat day, and past astatine nighttime he would — I’d beryllium successful bed, you know, reference my book, and he was still connected nan phone, reference his briefings. Working pinch staff. I mean, it was nonstop," Jill Biden said.