CNN contributor and former Obama campaign manager David Axelrod reacted to the news of Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis by suggesting that talk of his mental decline and the attached scandal should be muted and ‘set aside.’
How about no?
A deeply cynical person might think that this diagnosis was announced when it was, specifically for this purpose. If Democrats don’t want people to think that might be true, these comments from Axelrod certainly don’t help.
The Hill reports:
Axelrod: Biden discussion should be ‘set aside’ after cancer diagnosisPolitical strategist David Axelrod on Sunday said discussions about President Biden’s mental acuity and whether he should have exited last year’s presidential race sooner should be “set aside” as the former president deals with a prostate cancer diagnosis.“I think those kinds of discussions are going to happen, but they should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s sort of struggling through this,” Axelrod said on CNN not long after the news about Biden circulated.Biden, 82, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, his office announced Sunday. The diagnosis comes after a regular medical exam found a “small nodule” on his prostate earlier this month. The finding “necessitated further evaluation,” a spokesperson said.The news dropped as the former president has come under more and more criticism for the Democrats’ loss to President Trump in November’s presidential election.
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Even Chris Cillizza, formerly of CNN and hardly a conservative, disagrees with this.
Democrats have made it quite clear that they would love nothing more than to move on from the Biden mental decline scandal, but they must not be allowed to do so, same goes for the media.
This was the biggest political scandal of our times. Joe Biden’s condition, no matter how harsh, changes nothing and no one is ‘setting aside’ a thing.
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