This Monday, as President Biden met with King Charles in London, CNN This Morning claimed Biden’s age made him uniquely suited for foreign policy and the President’s distance from dissenting Republicans made him much more comfortable abroad.
CNN alleged there was no dissatisfaction with Biden’s actions as president, only “a kind of implicit feeling” that Biden would not run for reelection, which may have dissatisfied voters. “And so, that has nothing to do with the facts or the substance of his actions,” New York Times reporter and CNN political analyst Astead Herndon claimed.
While praising Biden’s conduct abroad, a national political correspondent from Axios, Alex Thompson, attempted to blame Republicans for Biden’s less comfortable manner in America:
I mean, this is not unusual for an incumbent president running for reelection because on the international stage, you don't have congressional Republicans basically telling you “no” all the time, right? So he gets to go -- and you saw this in the interview with Fareed Zakaria over the weekend, too, where he was just so much more comfortable talking about these issues.