Fox News’s Chris Wallace called former President Obama’s remarks at the Democratic National Convention “a really curious speech” on Wednesday night, highlighting that he didn’t “talk about Joe Biden for five of those 15 minutes” during his address.
“I thought it was a really curious speech,” the “Fox News Sunday” host said. “He talked for 15 minutes, [but] I bet he didn’t talk about Joe Biden for five of those 15 minutes. He basically said, ‘He was my brother in the White House, he made me a better president, he will make it a better country.'”
“It wasn’t even all that much about Donald Trump, although he certainly made clear, I think you could only call it contempt for Donald Trump,” Wallace continued. “But most of it was almost like the community organizer from Chicago, about how people have to go out and organize and as he said, our democracy is at stake.”
“As a full-throated endorsement of Joe Biden — I’m not saying he wasn’t for him — it was a curious speech,” Wallace concluded.
Obama’s speech from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia argued that President Trump is unfit for the highest office in the land while urging voters to back Biden, his former vice president.
“I am also asking you to believe in your own ability — to embrace your own responsibility as citizens — to make sure that the basic tenets of our democracy endure,” Obama said. “Because that’s what’s at stake right now. Our democracy.”
Trump said Wednesday that Obama’s and Biden’s performance during their eight years in the White House paved the way for his victory in November 2016.
“President Obama did not do a good job. And the reason I’m here is because of President Obama and Joe Biden. Because if they did a good job, I wouldn’t be here,” he said during a Wednesday press conference. “And probably, if they did a good job, I wouldn’t have even run; I would have been very happy. I enjoyed my previous life very much, but they did such a bad job that I stand before you as president.”