'Outnumbered' panel discusses President Biden taking a dig at President-elect Trump while speaking about President Carter's decency. He's a one-term Democrat who's leaving office amid domestic discontent with inflation, a Middle East hostage crisis and a Republican renegade replacing him. Yes, it's President Biden, but it also sounds a lot like the late Jimmy Carter.
The parallels between the two are "uncanny," Richard Moe, who was the Chief of Staff to Carter's vice president Walter Mondale, told The New York Times . "That Mr. Carter would depart the scene at this particular stage of Mr.
Biden’s presidency, however, evokes a certain sense of déjà vu: another one-term Democratic president whose aspirations for another term were damaged by inflation and struggles to win the release of hostages held in the Middle East before he leaves office," The New York Times' Peter Baker wrote. Of course, while Carter was cast out of office in a bruising defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980 that he never got over, Biden didn't get the chance to win re-election, watching his vice president Kamala Harris lose to President-elect Donald Trump . JONATHAN TURLEY: WHAT JIMMY CARTER WOULD NEVER DO AND BIDEN DID.
SMALL WONDER HE DIDN'T MENTION IT President Biden and the late President Jimmy Carter. (AP) Biden, who came into office in a similar fashion to Carter by fashioning himself as a figure of moral clarity after Trump's tumultuous first term, was pushed out of seeking a second term .
