If you thought Fox News was holding Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Conference speech, wait until you hear what they had to say about Joe Biden’s.
As the fireworks began to go off in the parking lot outside the empty arena, anchor Bret Baier soon considered the former vice president’s address ‘the best he has been’ in his long campaign for president. “This is what he had to do,” Baier added.
Chris Wallace was even more effusive, calling it an “enormously effective” speech. But most importantly for Biden, Wallace said it “blew a hole” in President Donald Trump’s attempts to portray him as weak or even demented in some way.
“Remember, Donald Trump has been talking for months about how Joe Biden was mentally shot, a prisoner of the left,” the Fox News host went on to say. ‘And yes, Biden read from a TelePrompter, from a prepared speech. But I thought he blew a hole, a big hole in that characterization. ”
“It seems to me that after tonight Donald Trump will have to run against a candidate, not against a caricature,” the host told Fox News. “The Democrats have had a good convention. Now it’s the Republicans’ turn.
“Joe Biden just hit a home game in the bottom of the ninth,” added Dana Perino. ‘He had pace, rhythm, energy, emotion and delivery. So I think when he looks back, he has to say that it’s probably the best speech of his life. ”
Echoing Wallace, the conservative commentator Brit Hume called it a very good speech ”delivered with“ strength and clarity ”by Biden. “He showed no sign of the times when his memory seems fleeting and his comprehension seems weak,” Hume said, adding that you “should not expect that in a prepared speech.”
Former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove also thought it was a “very good speech” that helped portray Biden as “a unifier who will bring the country together.” He added, “If I were a Republican strategist in the Trump campaign, I would worry about how long and effectively he will advance that theme.”
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