David Axelrod warns Biden presser 'reinforces the meme' that the president is too old: 'Can't unring the bell'

Former Obama advisor and CNN senior political analyst David Axelrod recently claimed that President Biden’s "angry" press conference in response to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on him "reinforces the meme" that the president is too old.

Axelrod told CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that the president’s defiant response Thursday night to Hur’s findings that he has "poor memory" and thus should not be charged for illegally holding classified documents, probably did not solve the "problem" of the majority of voters thinking he’s too old and too incompetent for the job.

The analyst, who has been critical of Biden’s age and fitness for office for months now, made his comments shortly after Biden finished the press conference where he dinged Hur for characterizing him as elderly and forgetful and sparred with reporters asking him about the special counsel’s points.

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Axelrod began by stating he understands why Biden had the press conference, noting that Hur’s report was "red-hot and out there and list people felt he needed to – and his people felt he needed respond to it."

However, he added, "Whether the response was adequate, or whether it creates more problems, I think is another question."

"He did contradict elements of the special counsel’s report. And that undoubtedly will go on," he said, adding, "And then he was quite angry, not just at the release, or the characterizations of the special counsel, but of what some of the reporters were asking him."

Axelrod stressed that the age and mental fitness issue is "a problem for the president" and warned that Biden seems to be "reinforcing" people’s impression of him as too old.

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