WASHINGTON — Former aides to Joe Biden and different Democratic flacks had been aghast Friday following a report that the forty sixth president just lately met with celebration bosses to supply to place himself again within the highlight and increase the ailing celebration’s picture and fundraising.
Biden, 82, and spouse Jill sat down with newly elected Democratic Nationwide Committee chairman Ken Martin final month to pitch themselves for a revamped campaigning effort, based on NBC Information.
Latest public polling reveals Democrats’ help has cratered, with lower than one-third of Individuals approving of the celebration’s efficiency since President Trump returned to the White Home Jan. 20.
“The Bidens are still living in an alternative universe that revolves only around them,” a onetime senior White Home adviser advised The Submit in response to the NBC report.
“Their irresponsibility, family ego and selfishness put the Democratic Party in this position in the first place … The Biden family — and the disconnected reality that they and their ineffective little circle live in — is responsible for the Trump sequel and the wilderness the Democratic Party finds itself in today,” this individual mentioned.
“Why?” requested one other former Biden administration official. “That is my first question.”
“They can’t raise money either way,” this individual mentioned. “I think donors would be more inclined to donate if they [the Bidens] were not relevant.”
“Joe Biden should enjoy retirement at the beach in Rehoboth,” a 3rd Biden alum added. “No voter wants to hear from him. He is delusional and arrogant to think that he can be a value add to the Democratic Party. We need to move on from the era of Joe Biden and embrace new, younger leadership.”
The ridicule prolonged to congressional Democrats, who management neither chamber of Congress following the Nov. 5 wipeout loss by then-Vice President Kamala Harris, who was thrust into the race after Biden introduced July 21 he wouldn’t search a second time period.
“The best thing Biden could do for the DNC is offer [DNC vice chair] David Hogg a high-paying role at his foundation,” a congressional Democratic aide snarked.
“Is this serious?” a former Democratic aide requested. “I mean, it has to be a joke. This is an ‘SNL’ skit.”
Biden has stored a comparatively low profile in retirement — solely not often posting tweets.
It’s unclear how the previous chief government will search to monetize his post-presidency, although he just lately signed with the expertise agency Inventive Artists Company, with which he beforehand partnered to advertise his ebook “Promise Me, Dad” after he left workplace as vp in 2017.
Biden’s son Hunter and brother James Biden reaped tens of millions of {dollars} for his or her household based mostly on their proximity to energy — hauling in large quantities from associates in China, Ukraine and different international locations the place US coverage was at one level managed by their relative.
Hunter began a novice artwork profession following his dad’s assumption of the presidency, in what was extensively seen as a option to additional monetize Joe’s authority, however mentioned in a current court docket submitting that he’s been unable to make many current gross sales.
“These people drank so much of their own Kool-Aid,” ranted the ex-senior White Home adviser, “that they believed — and nonetheless seemingly consider — that an 82-year-old man with a 38% approval score on day, who can’t sit down for a easy conventional 10-minute pre-Tremendous Bowl interview, was the reply for Democrats in 2024 and now this similar group thinks the Bidens are the reply for Democrats now?
“The fact that they continue to surround themselves with the same cast of clowns who delivered them nothing but the most devastating humiliation in modern political history — a president’s own power taken away by his own party — is all you need to know about them. They’ve learned nothing and they are the absolutely last and worst remedy for what ails the party in 2025 and 2026.”
