The news aggregator didn’t mention Biden by name in any link on the site on Friday morning even as he described the jobs numbers as missing expectations. The conservative media recluse also has not spared Biden from his focus on the health of aging political figures: The president’s physical health and public bouts of coughing tend to get splashed across the top of the page.īut the site’s relative disinterest in the president is notable. The site has also blasted Biden’s vaccine mandates (one headline on a vaccine booster story from November asked, “Will It Ever End!”). Opinion polls reflecting negatively on the president or members of his administration, including Vice President KAMALA HARRIS, regularly get top billing. There are still plenty of stories on the site that cast the president in a negative light. “But to be honest, it is only after I’m asked about it.”ĭrudge isn’t a Biden cheerleader. “I’ve noticed this change,” said TRACY SEFL, the Democratic operative who served as the HILLARY CLINTON 2008 campaign’s Drudge envoy. 21, the site linked to a report about former President DONALD TRUMP’s relationship with convicted sex offender JEFFREY EPSTEIN while promoting a story about Biden’s new dog and the record-setting pace at which Biden was confirming judicial appointees. Headlines on that day touted the “lowest jobless claims in 50 years,” “Biden delivering fastest recovery in history?” and quotes from CNBC host JIM CRAMER saying the economy was the “strongest I’ve ever seen.” On Dec. 10, found a patriotic graphic of Biden splashed against an American flag leading the site. Readers who visited Drudge on the morning of Dec. The Drudge Report made its name by making life hell for Democrats in the White House.īut over the past several months, the website, named after its infamous and enigmatic founder MATT DRUDGE, has continued the surprising trend that emerged during the 2020 presidential campaign: Taking a relatively muted editorial stance on JOE BIDEN. Send tips | Subscribe here| Email Alex | Email Tina | Email Max Welcome to POLITICO’s West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.
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