Former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina defended Biden bringing up exaggerated personal stories while speaking to victims of the Maui wildfires on Monday.
Former Obama Deputy White House Chief of Staff Jim Messina defends President Biden's controversial comments about the Maui fire.that President Biden’s comparing a kitchen fire to the historic Maui wildfires to relate to victims depicts"empathy" and connects with voters.
"Now, Joe Biden went to Hawaii, and I don't believe based on the reporting, he took a single question, but he did try and relate to those there from a kitchen fire at his house 15 years ago. Watch how this one," Fox News host Bill Hemmer said before showing a clip of Biden’s comments. "I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home," Biden said."Years ago, now, 15 years, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the press’… Lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home, not a lake a big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home, into the…air condition ducts.""To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my 67 Corvette, and my cat," the president added.
"I’m not sure we’re going to agree on this one, Bill," Messina responded."I think his empathy, his stories, his way he connects with voters are why he won the 2020 presidential election. It’s why he’s going to win again next time. He has empathy and connection with voters that press and D.C. pundits like me don’t fully give him enough credit for. And I think this kind of thing is the way your neighbor would talk to you, and it’s why people like him.
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