On Thursday, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee expressed surprise at former Vice President Joe Biden’s fumbling at the Wednesday Democratic presidential debate and said it shows that he is fading.
“I thought Joe Biden struggled with some questions, continually to fumble,” said Ronna McDaniel.
“I thought some of his answers were troublesome. Just in the delivery, it is interesting to see he really struggles to finish a response, and I think that’s something that — I imagine him next to the president if he ends up being the nominee, and I just think the president is going to come at him,” she said at a media breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
“Biden doesn’t seem to be very succinct or able to complete his answers and kind of fumbles through,” she added.
Many pundits panned Biden’s performance, the latest in which he failed to land big blows and appeared disinterested at times.
McDaniel, who has led the RNC in historic fundraising and who has strong support from President Trump, also noted that the recent rise of South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg suggests that the Democratic field is still in flux.
“It shows that Biden has faded,” she said of Buttigieg’s emergence as the front-runner in Iowa, the state that will hold America’s first presidential contest next year.
She added that it also shows Sen. Elizabeth Warren is fading.
But she added that the White House is not afraid of Buttigieg.
“This is not somebody who is a moderate. Just because he comes from South Bend, doesn’t make him that,” she said of the candidate’s effort to appear a middle-of-the-road candidate.
And she predicted a Trump victory over Buttigieg. “I think the president wins. Big. I think he wins big,” said McDaniel.
