Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Matthew Continetti said Thursday that former Vice President Joe Biden's aides are making the case against their boss for his Democratic opponents ahead of his expected announcement to run for president.
Continetti appeared on MSNBC's Meet the Press Daily, where he was asked about a report on Biden's advisers contemplating the idea of him pledging to choose unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D.) as his vice president when he announces his presidential campaign.
Host Chuck Todd noted that one of the panelists called the potential strategy to pick Abrams a "thud," before telling Continetti that Biden comes across as "indecisive."
"Biden's aides are making his opponents' case for them, right?" Continetti said. "First, we had, oh, he can't raise the grassroots money that Bernie [Sanders] and Beto [O'Rourke] have, so we're going to have to line up all the hard-money donors first."
"Then we have, oh, well, he doesn't get the enthusiasm with young people and people of color, so we're going to come out of the gate with Stacy Abrams as our running mate," Continetti continued. "If he wants to be president, he should ignore the chatter in D.C., which is talking about all the reasons why he's going to have trouble, and make an affirmative case for his candidacy. He's not done that."
NBC News correspondent Kasie Hunt later added that Biden was absorbing all of the chatter in D.C., prompting Todd to say that the former vice president spends too much time thinking like them.
"It gets in your head. It gets in your head," Hunt said.