Pete Buttigieg Gets Defensive When ABC's Jon Karl Confronts Him With Poll Showing 58% of Dems Don't Want Biden to Run Again: He's Been 'Historically Successful'
By: Joe DePaolo (Mediaite)
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By Joe DePaoloFeb 5th, 2023, 1:46 pm Twitter share button <?php // Post Body ?>
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg got defensive when confronted with some highly unflattering poll numbers for President Joe Biden.
In an interview on ABC's This Week, host Jon Karl presented Buttigieg with an ABC News/Washington Post poll showing that 58 percent of Democrats do not want the president to run for reelection, compared to just 31 percent who would like to see him pursue a second term.
"Do you want him to run again?" Karl asked. "I mean, you saw our poll. Large number of Democrats say they don't want him to run again."
Buttigieg bristled, and proceeded to give Biden praise that even his most ardent fans would likely consider to be over-the-top.
"He is an absolutely historically successful president." Buttigieg said. He added, "I'm incredibly proud to be part of this team that he has built and to be part of the results that he is delivering. The biggest infrastructure package since Eisenhower. The most significant economic achievement package since since FDR. All, by the way, while having the most the slimmest congressional majority of any new Democratic president in about 100 years. And again, we're just two years in. So what he's achieved is extraordinary."
The secretary noted that he was not permitted to speak about potential campaigns when appearing on television in his capacity as a government official. But he broadly suggested that he believes his boss will surprise people in the fall of 2024.
"One thing this president has done again and again and again, whether it's politically or whether it's policy wise, is defy expectations," he said. "And it's one of many reasons why I'm humbled and honored to be part of this team."
Watch above, via ABC.
The news media, and fools like Jonathan Karl, will be responsible when Trump plays a major role in the 2024 election.
Karl also asked Buttigieg for his reaction to a poll showing Trump beating Biden in a 2024 matchup. Karl offers this up for the simple and simpleminded reason to stoke any "horserace" possibilities, but it also will serve the purpose of emboldening Trump. Any piece of polling news showing him ahead of anyone will be used to promote his candidacy.
If Karl and ABC had an ounce of nerve and integrity they would announce they are not going to talk about such polls because the disgraced traitor Trump is not fit for office.
Someone has to say it, someone in the media with the huge megaphone. The cowardly GOP politicians are not going to do it.
Trump is being invited back on shows , and is out campaigning again as if nothing happened. We cant go down this road again, it is a road to ruin for our country.
This is crazy talk.
Really?
Do you think Trump is fit for office? Have you ever read anything about this man?
I bet you Edward R Murrow would look into the camera and say Trump is not fit for office.
I think it's crazy to believe the media should censor polls if they reflect poorly on the ruling party. I'm not a fan of substituting government propaganda for news.
If Biden wants better polls numbers, he should stop lying, stop being a rabid partisan and find a machine that restores his brain. It's not the media's job to cover up his unpopularity.
I dont have any problem with them giving Bidens poll numbers.
This was more than that. This was a suggestion that Trump is electable.
Trump would BEAT Biden in head-to-head election as new poll finds nearly two-thirds of Americans would be 'angry' or 'dissatisfied' if Biden were reelected and most voters want different choices in 2024
Which shows you what a toxic POS Brandon is!
His biggest success is running this country into a ditch!
Putin is responsible for Russian decline!
You cannot blame Biden for all of that...
But, if you must, credit Biden for helping.
It was an interesting interview. Secretary Buttigieg is always present behind his eyes to use a term of phrase. That is, Buttigieg comes prepared to be on task. And it shows how authentic he is, when you consider what this man must go through to who he is-holding a cabinet position.
Of course he is not going to discuss his boss' changes of reelection in a 'flighty' manner with any one on television. One, it would show 'disloyalty' - Buttigieg ran for the presidential nomination in 2019 and lost it to President Biden. Two, it would show him as being less than praiseworthy of what I wrote above about being on-task if the Secretary oddly 'forgot' that he is doing interviews about secretarial 'matters' of the economy and not making 'breaking news' sounds about candidate Biden before news cameras.
I shouldn't blame the media for trying to get people in trouble; but, the media does ask "the silliest things" in a quest for fame and fortune! (And to see just how STUPID a guest can be to try to answer any and all 'gotcha' questions where wisdom would defer.) Good on you, Mr. Buttigieg!
Alright. Supposedly 58% of democrats do not want Biden to run again. That is fine............so...........who is it that these 58% want to see on the ticket?
For me, if Biden runs again I will support him. And if he doesn't I would like to see Sheldon Whitehouse take his message to the people. Although I am confident Senator Whitehouse has no such ambition.
Personally, I think Biden should announce that he achieved his purpose and step down. 82 is too old to be inaugurated as president.
The media will lock in the idea that only Biden can beat Trump and Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee. This kind of crap becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Except this----------------When the Putin Regime collapses the right wing scream machine will be looking for three things. Excuses, exits and forgiveness. If The United States has any backbone at all it will bequeath none of those.
And for Trump, he is eyeballs and assholes into dirty Russian/Saudi and Chinese money just for starters and that is the least of his transgressions. He'll be lucky to get out alive. The information and truth coming from the new Russian leadership will be earthshaking and they will gladly divulge it to atone for their actions and climb back into the international trade and finance business.
When Putin falls Belarus and Hungary will follow suit. There will be a new democratic order in Europe.
Trump is going nowhere. He has nowhere to go except down.