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Politico column takes aim at Biden's 'weakened capacity' to use bully pulpit: 'Half a president'
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Politico's John Harris took aim at President Biden on Thursday in a column that argued the president's address highlighted why he needed to step down.
Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Wednesday and told Americans he was dropping out to unify the Democratic Party, adding that the election was about "defending democracy." Harris wrote that Biden's speech showed "a paradox," in which "Trump represents continuity and Biden is the anomaly." Hanna Panreck is an associate editor at Fox News.
"On the performative dimension of the presidency — using words to inspire his supporters, box in his enemies, to reframe debates — he [Biden] has been arguably the weakest Oval Office occupant in more than a century, back to the days before television or even radio, when most Americans might read about a presidential speech but had never heard the president’s voice," he continued.