Clyburn Blames Biden’s Debate Performance to ‘Preparation Overload’

CAPEHART: “Welcome to ‘The Sunday Show.’ So, let me get word from you. Do you agree with minority Leader Jeffries that President Biden’s comeback — that this is President Biden’s comeback moment?”
Clyburn: “Yes, I do. Thank you very much for having me. The fact of the matter is, I’ve made it very clear, ever since the morning after, that is Friday morning, that I think people ought to just chill out. This is something that denotes what can happen any time a sitting president takes it upon himself to debate. It has happened historically. I saw it happen to Ronald Reagan, it happened to Barack Obama, and now it has happened to Joe Biden. When you have been running the country as he has been for 3 1/2 years, faced with all of the issues that he is faced with, you don’t have time to sit aside and make up stories about the past or to forget about what is going on around you. You’ve got to face your job. He has been doing that. And so, for him, to go into preparation and what I have been calling this, a classic example of preparation overload, I just think that there should have been much less preparation for this debate and much more activism in his job.”
CAPEHART: “You know, congressman, I actually agree with you. You could see the president trying to remember the dollars and the figures and the everything, and there were moments when just that President Biden from the heart, as one person would call him, the Irish Biden would come out, you’d say more of that, more of that, please. Congressman Clyburn, have you spoken to the president since the debate?”
Clyburn: “No, I have not. We knew before the debate that he was going to do that debate and was going to go to New Jersey and on over to — down from there to Delaware with his family. I never had planned to talk to him until after I finish here in Wisconsin tomorrow. I am doing my fifth event of the day here in Wisconsin, and I will be here all day tomorrow, and then I will talk to the president afterwards.”