Overview
- Jean-Pierre is promoting “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,” which announces her break from the Democratic Party and criticizes party leaders over the 2024 Biden episode.
- The New Yorker Q&A published this week drew widespread ridicule for unclear answers, with additional pushback in appearances with Stephen Colbert and on The Bulwark podcast.
- The Washington Post panned the book as clichéd and unfocused, while Matt Taibbi labeled it incoherent in a review for the Free Press.
- Politico reporting cited by the Daily Caller describes Democratic strategists and former Biden aides privately calling the tour a “car crash” and questioning whether she knows what argument she is making.
- Right-leaning outlets such as the Federalist and Blaze Media are using the backlash to argue that a previously sympathetic press has turned on a prominent Biden defender.