Jean-Pierre Won’t Answer Whether Biden’s Silence on the Anti-Semitic Protests Is Because He’s Terrified of Losing His Own Voters’ Support

Reporter: “And I understand that President Biden historically has spoken —“
Jean-Pierre: “Yeah.”
Reporter: “— very forcefully about anti-Semitism. But this week he’s not. He’s MIA. Is he that worried about losing the youth vote with these protesters?”
Jean-Pierre: “I’m going to be mindful. You’re talking about youth vote, you’re talking about 2024. No, no, no. Well —“ [crosstalk]
Reporter: “Support of young people.”
Jean-Pierre: “I’m — I — I have to say what I have to say, and just give me a second. So I’m not going to speak about — somebody’s doorbell. Is that a doorbell?”
UNKNOWN FEMALE: “Yeah. Alarm.”
Jean-Pierre: “An alarm. OK. All right. And I’ll speak more broadly. I can’t speak to youth — youth and support and voters, that’s not something I can do from here. The president has taken a lot of policy actions here that he knows that young people care about. And a lot of those actions are popular with those young folks, whether it’s giving a little bit of breathing room with student debt relief, something we made an announcement today, matter of fact, and we are going to continue to do that, because we think it’s important as families or as an American, and you coming out of college, and you want to build a family, buy a home, you have the opportunity to do that and not be crushed by student debt. The president understands how important it is to deal with that issue. Climate change, something that young people really truly care about. One of the crises that the president said he came into having to deal with was the climate change crisis, as the president has taken more, has taken aggressive, aggressive action to deal with climate crisis. You look, I can’t speak to — I can’t speak to youth voters or their support. What we’re going to do is continue to take actions that we believe helps all Americans and all communities.”