Washington Free Beacon editor-in-chief Matthew Continetti said that former Vice President Joe Biden's long past in the Senate will only hurt him during the 2020 Democratic primary.
"A synonym for experience is baggage, and Joe Biden has a lot of it," Continetti said. "He was only saved this afternoon by the announcement that he has raised more in the first 24 hours than any other candidate."
Continetti's comment came during a Friday discussion on Fox News Channel's Special Report about continued concerns that Biden's past decisions and opinions will not appeal to the Democratic party's current ideologies. Biden's Friday morning interview on ABC's The View—his first since announcing his candidacy on Thursday— was a "disaster," Continetti said.
"He came in and spent five minutes talking about how the Charlottesville riot was bad, which I think most of America agree with, and he spent the rest of the show, 45 minutes, apologizing for the various infractions he has made over the years, culminating in this extended discussion of a Supreme Court hearing that happened 28 years ago," Continetti said, in reference to the ongoing criticisms of Biden's conduct as Senate Judiciary Chair in the 1991 Anita Hill hearing, during Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court.
Hill said Biden's treatment and his overly touchy composure demands a more full-bodied apology that will bring about "real change and real accountability."
"The focus on apology to me is one thing," Hill said on Wednesday. "But he needs to give an apology to the other women and to the American public because we know now how deeply disappointed Americans around the country were about what they saw. And not just women. There are women and men now who have just really lost confidence in our government to respond to the problem of gender violence."
Continetti said incidents like this could eventually prove to be Biden's undoing.
"Biden is weighed down by his 40 years in public life, and it's going to be a big problem for him to turn from the past of the future, which is what presidential elections are all about," Continetti said.