MICHAEL CHAMBERLAIN: KJP Maintains Fantasy Biden Presidency As Trump Forges Ahead

Remember Karine Jean-Pierre, Joe Biden’s Pollyanna press secretary who would have us believe she kept losing foot races to the president while he formulated complex policy and solved multivariable calculus problems for fun? She hasn’t changed her tune. She still sounds like she’s standing at the podium, hand feeding a docile press corps.

But White House reporters aren’t so easy to manage now. For one thing, they’re a lot busier than when they were pretending to believe her assurances about her boss’s vitality. And they’re probably bitter. Biden dropped out of the race, dropped Kamala Harris in and ended up dropping the hated President Trump on them. They’re not ready to forgive KJP’s claims of being unable to keep up with an octogenarian of his “stamina,” and they don’t like the book she’s flogging, “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.”

In it, she professes to have left her party and become the titular independent because they forced Biden out. Personal loyalty to her old boss is admirable. Ronald Reagan proved changing political affiliations can be a positive, but where are the American people in her equation? Should they have voted for a man who was clearly not up to the job?

Yes. She’s still peddling the idea that Democrats and their media pals should have judged the president on his “legislative wins,” and other achievements.

That apparently was too much even for Tim Miller of the anti-Trump magazine “The Bulwark” when KJP appeared with him on a podcast. He said Biden “talked way less to the press” than Trump does, and when he did, he wasn’t good at it. Her response:

The president spoke to the American people a couple times a week. He traveled and did domestic travel and talked directly to the American people. We are talking about a time politically that is incredibly partisan. It is hard. It was hard to break through any messaging. And it was an incumbency as well.

Usually, incumbency is a communication advantage – the “bully pulpit” and all that. What about the rest of her answer? That held up about as well as her insistence that