‘Victory Friday’: White House Responds to Victory Over National Injunctions
BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules on Rogue Judges, Impacting Birthright Citizenship
MSNBC Is Melting Down Over the Supreme Court's Birthright Citizenship Ruling
That Is a Brutal Footnote in the Supreme Court's Ruling on Birthright Citizenship
New York City Mayoral Candidate Wants to Raise Taxes – On White People
New York Socialist Zohran Mamdani Uses Martin Luther King Jr. to Push His...
The Supreme Court Just Ruled on This State's Pornography Law
In Kennedy v. Braidwood, SCOTUS Upholds ACA’s Preventive-Care Mandate
More Major Food Companies Embrace the MAHA Movement With Latest Announcements
DHS Highlights the 'Worst of the Worst - LA Edition'
Gavin Newsom Is Suing Fox News. Here's Why.
So Book Bans Are Okay Now? San Francisco Store Won't Sell JK Rowling's...
Two Leftist Heroes Have Been Ordered Released From Custody
SCOTUS Hands Down Ruling in Landmark Parental Rights Case
Here's the Shocking Reason Why '160 Democrats' Was Just Trending on X
Tipsheet
Premium

Biden Responds to Van Jones's Criticism of His 'Dead Man Walking Campaign'

AP Photo/Chris Carlson

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden laughed off CNN political analyst Van Jones’s assessment on Friday that he’s running a “dead man walking campaign.” 

“Look, I know why I’m running,” Biden said on CNN after a clip of Jones’s interview played. “Just since the debate we’ve raised over 2 million dollars. I got in this thing late. I didn’t have a fundraising base. I’ve been out of office for three years. It’s just beginning to build...It takes time to build this.”

Biden explained his reasons for running, including helping Americans have “adequate healthcare,” ensuring taxes don’t go up, combating climate change, and more. 

Though Jones admitted Biden could still turn his flailing campaign around if he performs well in the South Carolina primary, he pointed to the lack of enthusiasm for his campaign—in both fundraising and crowd size—as a warning sign for Biden. 

“There’s a weakness in the Biden campaign, not just a weakness in the candidate,” he said earlier Friday. “No, the problem is—a former vice president, two-term vice president, Obama’s guy—should be just sucking in money. He’s broke. That shows a lack of enthusiasm not just at the grassroots level where he needed that, but also at the top.”

Jones added that Biden is also “not filling stadiums like Bernie Sanders” and that his grassroots operation is nonexistent. 

“It’s very, very hard to understand the rationale of the Biden campaign,” he said. “It’s felt like a dead man walking campaign for a long time. But it could come back.”

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement