During an appearance on MSNBC on Monday morning, former Rep. Max Rose (D-NY) took a shot at New Yorker writer Susan Glasser after she expressed dismay that President Joe Biden called out "Democratic elites" in a feisty phone call with MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.
Rose, who has been making the case for Democrats to cool their jets after Biden's disastrous debate, praised Biden's call and said it will likely change some doubters' minds.
For her part, Glasser was alarmed at Biden's populist pitch that he doesn't care what the elites and billionaires think about him.
"The point about the elites is that, obviously, both parties have decided that it's good politics to be bashing the elites and lining up with the common person and that is Trump's populist strategy and it is Biden's populist strategy," Glasser told host Ana Cabrera. "I would point out with many surveys suggesting as many as three-quarters of Americans believe Biden is too old to serve as president for another term in office."
"When you say only the elites have concerns about President Biden and his age and his performance in the debate, what you're doing is insulting a large chunk of your own party," she added. "So the question I have is, is it really good politics to insult a large chunk of your own electorate that thinks that this is a problem, and to call them bed wetters, as the president's advisers have done."
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Noting Rose shaking his head, Cabrera asked him to weigh in.
"What the president is coming out and saying right now is why he would love everyone's support and deeply cares about their opinion," he started. "What matters is two things: one, he won the nomination, and, two, he has an extraordinary record that he is ready to continue to build upon."
Taking direct aim at Glasser, he added, "With all respect to the 75,000 people that pay for their annual subscription to the New Yorker, they are not representative of the fundamental Democratic base, and that is the base that he is listening to, whether it is African American communities, whether it is union halls, whether it's people who each and every day are working their hearts out — that is who the president is speaking directly to."
As the segment closed, Glasser could be seen with a sickly smile shaking her head.
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