Democrat President Joe Biden’s former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is urging voters to ignore the growing concerns about the mental struggles of the embattled POTUS.
During a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden’s favorite “news” show, Klain attempted to downplay the president’s recent debate disaster.
According to Klain, Biden’s inability to focus or speak coherently is unrelated to his capacity to serve as commander-in-chief or his ability to beat President Donald Trump in November.
Klain called for Democrat lawmakers and voters to unite behind Biden’s candidacy as many have been questioning whether he should be replaced as the party’s presidential nominee.
“We’re not hiring a debater-in-chief, we’re hiring a commander-in-chief,” Klain told the show’s co-host, Willie Geist.
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The two discussed Biden’s fitness for office.
During the interview, Klain was touting Biden as the right man for the presidency and claimed he should stay in the race for re-election.
He also repeatedly stated that Biden could beat Trump throughout the conversation.
Klain made the claims even amid the increasing calls for the president to abandon his re-election bid.
After several minutes of Klain touting Biden’s accomplishments in the White House Geist pushed the former Biden official on whether people are rightly worried about his fitness following the performance.
“Ron, can you see though why the idea that the President of the United States couldn’t perform almost two weeks after he got home from Europe in a 90-minute debate might reinforce the questions that people have about his ability to do the job?” Geist asked.
“No,” Klain replied, “because… Willie, you see him doing the job and you just saw him get through this grueling week of NATO meetings with NATO leaders saying he did an excellent job with the NATO producing the Ukraine declaration at the end of it – a new breakthrough for NATO and its confronting Russian aggression.”
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However, Biden did experience some humiliating verbal stumbles and gaffes while addressing the NATO summit in Washington D.C. on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, Biden referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “President Putin.”
He quickly caught himself, adding, “President Putin?
“He’s going to beat President Putin.
“President Zelensky.
“I’m so focused on beating Putin.
“We got to worry about it. Anyway, Mr. President.”
During his press conference later that evening, Biden accidentally called VP Kamala Harris “Vice President Trump” during a confusing statement.
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HAHAHA holy sh*t Joe Biden just called Kamala Harris "Vice President Trump" pic.twitter.com/T2IzSEGsRn
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The mix-up led to widespread mockery and prompted even more questions about his mental acuity.
The reaction from Biden's team when he called Kamala "Vice President Trump"
ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS 🤣😂💀 pic.twitter.com/WLSFD2vDYp
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Biden’s “big buy” presser was the first solo media briefing the president had held since November.
Despite such missteps, Klain assured Geist that Biden’s public performances were not as important as “his” policies.
He said that Americans are looking for “someone to lead our economy here at home, lead our domestic policy, stand up for freedom around the world, stand for freedom here at home in the face of Republicans trying to roll back women’s rights, and I think that people see Joe Biden doing that.”
“I think that’s the measure of his fitness to be president – is the way he is president,” Klain concluded.
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