‘Pod Save America’ hosts hit back at Biden team: ‘What are you spending time on us for?’
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Two co-hosts of the “Pod Save America” podcast on Friday fired back at Biden campaign staffers who have reportedly dismissed their calls for the president to consider stepping down from the Democratic ticket.
Two co-hosts of the “Pod Save America” podcast on Friday fired back at Biden campaign staffers who have reportedly dismissed their calls for the president to consider stepping down from the Democratic ticket. In an episode released Friday, Dan Pfeiffer called it “infuriating” to think that he and co-host Jon Favreau, both former Barack Obama aides, are questioning whether Joe Biden can win out of “personal animus.” It’s the latest episode of Democratic infighting since the president’s disastrous debate performance in June kicked off a flurry of calls for the president to withdraw. “The incompetence of spending your time fighting ‘Pod Save America,’ David Axelrod, George Clooney, and the most popular figure in the Democratic Party at a time when you were struggling with Black voters is f**king insane,” Pfeiffer said, referring to Obama. A New York Times report Wednesday described Biden’s advisers as dismissing the “Pod Save America” co-hosts as “operatives who worked for a cerebral, cool-guy president and never understood the world according to the scrappy kid from Scranton.” Favreau said that Biden’s team has “bigger f**king fish to fry.” “What are you spending time on us for? Go f**king just beat Donald Trump or … help your candidate be on message,” he said.
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