Ex-Obama adviser says Biden can't beat 'Father Time' and is 'not winning this race'

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Ex-Obama adviser David Axelrod argued that President Biden is slated to lose the election to former President Trump in an interview with CNN on Sunday night.

Multiple media figures and Biden allies have called on the president to withdraw from the race after a shaky debate performance last month.

"There are certain immutable facts of life," Axelrod said in an interview with CNN while discussing Biden's age and leadership. "Those were painfully obvious on that debate stage. The president just … hasn't come to grips with it. He’s not winning this race."

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"He seems not to grasp what the big concern is that people have," Axelrod said.

Axelrod, who formerly served as President Obama's chief campaign strategist, said that Biden is used to fighting "his way back from political defeats and against the odds."

"So his psyche is that he can beat anybody and any long odds," the strategist said. "What he can’t beat is Father Time."

"And that’s really the concern here. It’s not about his record," Axelrod continued.

Biden will turn 82 in November and is already the oldest president in American history.

"Donald Trump is an almost unprecedentedly flawed candidate in so many ways and represents, I do believe, as the president says, a real danger to democracy," Axelrod said. "But the