Begala: 'This Is Terrible for Democrats'

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“Look, I’m a Biden supporter. And I slept like a baby last night. I woke up every two hours and wet the bed. This is terrible for Democrats. And anybody with a functioning brain knows that,” said Begala, who was a chief strategist to the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and later served as an adviser to President Bill Clinton in the White House, in an appearance Friday on CNN. ...

Begala criticized the president’s response, arguing that an offensive strategy would have been more effective than going on the defense.

“What you do is attack. Change the subject. You can’t unring the bell,” Begala said. “I think Biden made it worse, no question about it.”

Ed Morrissey

I don't think Begala's wrong in terms of strategy in general, but I think the White House would have been far better off letting this blow itself out over the weekend. Biden shouldn't have done a presser at all. But the other problem is that Biden has been attacking all week, and created more grist for the dementia worries while doing so. The anecdotes that Biden told at fundraisers this week while claiming to have had conversations with long-dead European leaders were attacks on Trump and the "ultra-MAGAs". 

Just as an aside, I think Begala knows this. He's just stuck trying to make lemonade out of hemlock. 

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