President Joe Biden sang the praises of California Governor Gavin Newsom at the APEC summit, saying that the left-wing Democrat has the right stuff to be bumped up to the leader of the entire country.
On Wednesday, the geriatric career politician and his veep Kamala Harris joined Newsom for the Pacific Rim economic forum where he met with his Chinese leader Xi Jinping in a cleaned-up San Francisco, speaking highly of the governor despite the decline of his once prosperous state into a crime-ridden hellhole.
BIDEN on Gov. Gavin Newsom: “He can be anything he wants. He can have the job I’m looking for” pic.twitter.com/KS5sq4yH17
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“I want to thank him. He’s been one hell of a governor, man,” Biden told the region’s cheering leaders after the California Democrat spoke to the crowd.
“Matter of fact he can be anything he wants – he could have the job I’m lookin’ for,” Biden said, referring to his increasingly troubled reelection bid.
Governor Newsom, who has been generating buzz as a possible replacement for the flailing geriatric leader, helped Biden haul in $3 million at a fundraiser for high rollers in San Francisco on Tuesday night and has been showing all the signs of being ready to come in from the party’s bullpen if called to do so.
The president also doubled down on whether he believes that his communist counterpart is a “dictator” despite their sit-down at APEC, Biden had previously referred to the Chinese strongman in unflattering terms earlier this year, a label that Beijing called “irresponsible” and “an open political provocation” at the time.
“Mr. President, after today, would you still refer to President Xi as a dictator? This is a term that you used earlier this year,” a reporter asked Biden at a press conference following a bilateral meeting.
WATCH: Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes his head as Biden agrees Xi Jinping is a dictatorpic.twitter.com/AsnCqSrSym
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“Well look, he is,” Biden responded. “I mean, he’s a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country based on a form of government totally different than ours,” a remark that drew a pained reaction from Secretary of State Antony Blinken whose job was made much more difficult thanks to his boss’s going off script.
Biden’s frank description of Xi put a damper on any progress that may have been made between the leaders of the two global powerhouses with the Chinese being notoriously sensitive to criticism, especially coming from a man whose own tenure has been marked by government persecution of political adversaries and the regime’s efforts to jail former President Donald J. Trump, his likely opponent in next year’s election.
Later in the day at a star-studded gala following the main event, rocker Gwen Stefani shared a stage with the deeply unpopular Democrat who if trends hold, could lose the election to the Republican frontrunner, with calls coming for Biden to step down as his poll numbers continue to deteriorate with Newsom waiting in the wings.
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