Veteran Democrat political strategist James Carville has blasted President Joe Biden for complaining about his media coverage.
Appearing on Jen Psaki’s MSNBC show, the former Bill Clinton advisor warned that Biden’s “age issue is suffocating him.”
“I do think the president has to deal, the age issue is suffocating him,” Carville told Psaki in response to a question about how Biden and President Donald Trump could possibly be tied in the polls.
“He needs to bring up that he is only four years older than Trump.”
Carville told Biden to quit “complaining” about the New York Times’s coverage of his age and his bad poll numbers, which he said was a “waste of time.”
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Biden, the oldest president to hold office at the age of 81 years old.
The president’s handlers have reportedly been “upset” by the paper’s coverage throughout his first term in office.
The media outlet issued a statement on the president’s lack of media access in late April.
Biden has refused to sit down for an interview with The New York Times, something every modern president has done while in office.
“For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy,