Lame-duck President Joe Biden has blamed the media’s accurate negative reporting on his economy for Kamala Harris’s election defeat last month.
Biden notes voters gave President Donald Trump a historic victory because they were angry about the economy.
However, while it is true that voters were angry about “Bidenomics,” the president blasted the public for informing the American people about the economy.
Biden made the comments Tuesday during an interview on the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast.
The podcast host thanked Biden for appearing on the show.
However, the president continued to ramble on about economics.
“Look, one of the things that worries me most, and I’ll get off the line, is that the kind of things you hear, the numbers” Biden slurred.
“You know that survey done by the Michigan survey, how people feel about this, I think it’s between 65%-67% of American people think they’re better off than they were before we got elected in the last four years,” he alleged.
He went on to say that the survey found only 34% of people had a positive view of the direction of the economy.
“I think that’s because the press isn’t the way it used to,” he continued.
“They’re good people, don’t get me wrong.
“Everything’s changing. But the biggest change taking place is the press.
“They’re not bad. They’re still good people.
“But where do people get their news?” he asked.
“The thing is — don’t hold me to this — if the data’s correct, something only 5%-7% of people under the age of 25 are reading the newspaper.”
Biden gave the analogy of Richard Nixon sweating during a televised debate with John F. Kennedy.
“We pick what news we want to hear,” he claimed after citing a mystery survey apparently skewed in his favor.
“It’s a totally different deal.
“We’ve got to figure out how we deal with this significant technological change,” he explained.
“Think of the changes taking place.
“Where do you go? What is true? We have no evidence anymore.
“I’m not sure how that gets resolved.
“But I think it’s a big deal.”
Democrats have debated the issue of the economy among themselves, before and after the election.
Many warned that the issue would doom Democrats.
However, others claimed the economy was fine and that Americans were unpersuaded by criticism from Republicans on inflation and slow wage growth.
Trump hammered the Democrats on inflation.
Some on the Left countered that the inflation rate had slowed and that wages had outpaced inflation as they approached Election Day.
However, the American people remembered that their life was economically better under Trump.
