Former CNN CEO Walter Isaacson said he doesn’t believe 2020 front-runner Joe Biden’s recent blunders will hurt him in the Democratic primary because he is a “storyteller.”
Isaacson, who also spent time as the editor of Time, appeared on Morning Joe Friday to discuss Biden’s recent slips.
The former vice president recently told an inaccurate war story in which the Washington Post reported that, “In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.” Biden stood by the “essence” of the story after being confronted by the inaccuracies.
“You’ll see something fundamentally different because Biden and Warren, who seem like now the two people contending most closely for this nomination, are fundamentally different in their personalities,” Isaacson said. “Warren is giving you plans. She’s a very rigorous thinker who has thought through every policy. You ask her a question, you get a policy answer.”
He continued, “Joe Biden … is a storyteller. And he connects emotionally and sometimes I think these gaffes don’t hurt him. Because when he makes those gaffes people say, hey, he’s normal. He’s a person like me.”
He then concluded that each Biden and Warren would be better off if they were able to learn something from each other.
