Democrats are “extremely lucky” to have President Biden as a candidate and should be more “grateful,” New York Times columnist David Brooks insisted on Friday.
Brooks appeared on a segment of “PBS Newshour” where he and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus discussed the upcoming Republican presidential primary debate. Host Geoff Bennett noted that despite concerns within the GOP, the Democratic Party has been ambivalent on President Biden’s election chances as well.
Brooks argued that while there are problems regarding Biden’s age and his approval ratings, the Democrats are overall “extremely lucky” to have the president as a candidate.
“[A]ny time you look at some alternative, whether it’s the mystery moderate from the Midwest or Gavin Newsom or anybody else, things start unraveling really fast. And so the Democrats are lucky, frankly, to have a candidate in Biden who has presided over an incredibly strong economic recovery, who has presided over pretty good international…