Jean-Pierre defies badgering Fox News reporter: 'I am not going to do political punditry from here'

15 May 2024

Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, as he often does during White House press briefings, attempted to push White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's buttons regarding her boss — President Joe Biden's — decision to debate Donald Trump on June 27.

Doocy said, "I know you don’t want to talk about campaign stuff…"

Jean-Pierre interrupted, saying, "I really don't. It's not even that I don't want to — I can’t."

Doocy continued, "Then how about your insight as the most prominent political communicator in the world, the White House press secretary..."

Jean-Pierre replied, "In the world?"

The Fox News reporter went on to ask, "Does a person generally want to debate when they are winning, or when they are losing?"

Jean-Pierre replied, "I am not going to do political punditry from here, my friend."

The Fox News correspondent also "poked" Pierre regarding Donald Trump's polling over President Joe Biden in some states, according to HuffPost, "asking how a 'criminal defendant' could be ahead" of Biden "in five battleground states."

The news outlet notes: "Doocy was referring to New York Times polls that showed former President Donald Trump, who’s on trial over concealing hush money payments, beating Biden in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania. The incumbent won all of those swing states in 2020."

Doocy continued to push Jean-Pierre's buttons, asking, “So more broadly then, have you considered in the White House that some of President Biden’s recent policy positions could be a turnoff to the people that used to like him?"

The White House press secretary pointed to the fact that "combating student debt and Big Pharma have earned mass approval."

She told Doocy, "So what the president is actually doing is popular with what the majority of Americans want to do. Even in protecting reproductive rights, something that Republicans are not on the right side of history. You think about what extreme elected officials want to do. The president wants to protect and make sure that we actually are giving a woman a right to make really difficult decisions on their health care. So that part I certainly disagree with you on."

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