“We gotta lock Joe up,” a former Biden administration official told Axios’s Alex Thompson on Tuesday.
The comment came when frustration boiled over after President Joe Biden told voters in New Hampshire on Tuesday, “We gotta lock [Trump] up.”
Biden later backtracked on his remarks: “Politically lock him up. Lock him out, that’s what we have to do.”
The former Biden official also told Thompson that Biden’s position is irrelevant. Biden has been campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris but undermining her claim of being an agent of change.
“For better or worse, no one is listening to him anymore and his words have little power and less reach. It’s a blip — gone in any meaningful way by mid-day tomorrow if it makes it that long,” the person added.