I never, ever thought that I would agree with anything that would roll out of the mouth of CNN commentator and radical leftist Van Jones. And yet, his recent statements about Biden being unfit for a second term in the White House and about Trump and the Republican Party have been right on the money. It almost pains me to say it. It really does.
Keep in mind, we’re talking about a former Obama administration staffer here who has been a political analyst for CNN for quite some time now. This isn’t a person who is know for being a centrist or someone who takes a common sense approach to politics. He’s as hardcore to the left as they come.
And yet, on Wednesday evening, the man’s brain finally fired on all cylinders as he was forced to confess that the Democratic Party might just completely and utterly fail in this election cycle. Jones looked like a wounded child who just found out for the first time that Santa Claus isn’t real.
“I just want to speak from my heart. I love [President Joe Biden]. That’s a good man. He loves his country. He’s doing the best that he can. But he had a test to meet tonight to restore the confidence of the country and of the base and he failed to do that,” a visibly stunned Jones went on to say during a panel discussion at the Republican National Convention. “And I think there’s a lot of people who are going to want to see him consider taking a different course now. We’re still far from our convention and there is time for this party to figure out a different way forward, if he will allow us to do that.”
CNN's Van Jones: "I love Joe Biden. I work for Joe Biden. He did not do well at all. It's not just panic. It's pain what we saw tonight" pic.twitter.com/NuUIBKDJtW
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Here’s more from the folks at The Western Journal:
If Jones has indeed recovered from the shock of finding out that Joe Biden is exactly who everyone else who wasn’t a liberal pundit and had seen Biden in the last five years thought he was, it wasn’t in evidence on Wednesday, when he pointed out the obvious: former President Donald Trump was continuing his campaign apace despite a bullet wound, but President Biden was sidelined by COVID.
According to Reuters, Biden was diagnosed with the virus on Wednesday as he was visiting Las Vegas. He’ll be self-isolating in Delaware after the diagnosis.
“He is vaccinated and boosted and experiencing mild symptoms,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre explained to the media.
“As he boarded Air Force One to depart Las Vegas to recuperate in Delaware, Biden told reporters: ‘Good, I feel good.’ But he climbed the stairs slowly, holding the railing tightly and pausing a few steps in and again towards the top,” the wire service revealed. “It was unclear how long the sickness would keep him for the campaign trail.”
It goes without saying that this comes at the worst possible time for the current president, since his own party is slowly gathering the forces for a coup to replace him atop the ticket. The most recent — and highest-profile — official defection urging Biden to step aside is Rep. Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who will likely become the state’s next senator after this November’s election and has close ties with House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, among others.
When it comes to folks who are in Biden’s age range, COVID isn’t something to mess around with. Then again, neither is the flu. However, for normal healthy people, it’s more of an inconvenience than anything else. But Van Jones, still looking shaken up, said that Biden acquiring the illness, along with Trump surviving a bullet, draws a very sharp line between the two men.
CNN's VAN JONES: "A bullet couldn't stop Trump. A virus just stopped Biden." pic.twitter.com/cYMn0hNFnc
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“There are a lot of people who want Biden to stay in,” Jones said, according to Mediaite. “I want to just keep pointing out, there is still a grassroots love for Joe Biden. “But today is a terrible day. If you pull back and look at this thing – strength versus weakness – a bullet couldn’t stop Trump, a virus just stopped Biden.”
And that says everything we need to know about each of the two candidates, doesn’t it?
“You’ve got the nominees of this party getting their butts kissed. Biden’s getting his butt kicked by his own party. The Democrats are coming apart. The Republicans are coming together, that’s what’s happened. And at some point, this party has to look at the reality of that,” Jones concluded.