Biden focused on 'legacy' in final months, but skeleton schedule 'signals' an empty house to rivals: expert
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Critics have claimed President Biden’s seemingly light schedule and infrequent public appearances since dropping out of the presidential race will harm America’s image abroad, even as the White House stresses recent policy wins.
"Biden has disappeared from view, Harris is campaigning full-time, and won’t meet with the press," former national security adviser K.T. McFarland told Fox News Digital.
"This sends a signal to the world that there is no one in charge in the White House," McFarland explained. "Our allies wonder whether they can trust us. Our adversaries see this as a wide open window of opportunity, when they can exploit us without risk of consequences."
"They know this window of opportunity will slam shut if Donald Trump is elected," McFarland argued. "We’re in a period of maximum vulnerability."
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Biden has made few public appearances and his schedule appears lighter than it had been prior to his decision not to seek a second term.
When Fox News correspondent David Spunt last week asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre why the American people have not heard from the president, she replied that the White House had put out two readouts that day.
Jean-Pierre also stressed that the administration is now in a "different time" and that Americans would "get to see