Democratic strategist James Carville said President Biden not sitting for an interview before the Super Bowl is a “sign” of his administration having little confidence in him.
“It’s the biggest television audience, not even close, and you get a chance to do a 20, 25-minute interview on that day, and you don’t do it, that’s a kind of sign that the staff or yourself doesn’t have much confidence in you, there’s no other way to read this,” Carville said in a February 10 interview on CNN’s “Smerconish.”
This will be the second year in a row that the president has not sat for an interview before the big game. Biden’s decision not to participate comes as he’s been facing bad press in the wake of the release of a special counsel report on his handling of classified documents.
On that same program Michael Smerconish asked viewers his weekly survey question “Should Jill Biden suggest to her husband that he should not seek re-election?” Two thirds of almost 36,000 viewers voted Yes.
This is not the first time a sitting president has not run for re-election. LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) announced in March of the year he was heading to election that he chose not to run. By 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson knew he was unlikely to win another presidential election; his increase of American involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as rising American casualties in Vietnam, had made him deeply unpopular. After Senator Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy declared their candidacies for the Democratic presidential nomination, Johnson announced that he would not seek another term and would, instead, retire.
Enjoy your retirement Joe.
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