Kellyanne Conway: Biden’s best strategy was when we saw less of him

Back with us now, former senior counsel to former President Trump, Kellyanne Conway. Kellyanne, it's good to see you. What do you make of this Democrat protest vote against President Biden? Michigan Governor Whitmer said, quote, I think there will be a sizable number of votes for uncommitted. Kellyanne, in your estimation, is this probably going to get into a bigger blown up issue for the president? Yes, I think the problem already began when you have RFK Jr., Cornel West, Jill Stein, all challenging him basically from the left. And in the case of RFK Jr., his most serious opponent from the libertarian perspective, they're already eating into Joe Biden's lead. I mean, his take of the vote, Elizabeth, when it's versus Donald Trump in a five way race. But when you're going to one of the states that you flipped in 2020 and people are going out and saying, you're the incumbent, you're our only choice in our party, and we're going to vote against you. A vote for uncommitted is a vote against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, by the way. And I would remind everybody that two short years ago in 2022, Gretchen Whitmer, not the most intelligent or impressive governor that we have, frankly, she was overwhelmingly reelected by double digits. And Act three, reproductive freedom for all, was the big issue on the ballot where young people were registering and voting on the same day. Biden can't even talk about any of that. He has dispatched his official staff and his campaign staff, Elizabeth, to the state of Michigan to try to quell the fears and the anger and the protest vote of uncommitted, particularly among this Arab American population in a place like Dearborn, Michigan, where the mayor has come out against Joe Biden in an op ed in a national newspaper in and around Detroit, the highest concentration of our Americans per capita in the country. And they're upset with Biden. Biden and Trump won Michigan narrowly in 2016. It flipped to Biden in 2020. I think if you can't rely upon a core constituency here or there, as you can't in some of these other states, you can kiss Michigan goodbye. That's interesting. You know what else is going on? Homeland Security is warning and top Democrats like James Carville are also warning that there's going to be protests at the Democrat convention in August in Chicago. You know, protesters did demonstrate in the NBC lobby last night where the president was being interviewed. But we'd like to get your reaction, please, to President Biden talking about a potential Gaza ceasefire in an ice cream shop. And you're going to hear reaction from media and fellow Democrats as well. Watch this. Give us a sense of when you think the ceasefire will start, sir. Well, I hope by the beginning of the weekend, I mean, the end of the weekend. At least my national security advisor tells me that we're close. We're close. We're not done yet. And my hope is by next Monday, we'll have a ceasefire. MJ, that's a big announcement from the president to be given in an ice cream shop. What role is the U.S. playing here? I don't think it's a coincidence that it's on Monday before the Michigan primary. And it shows that the president is listening to his coalition. That was Democrat Ro Khanna. You know, Kellyanne, both Israel and Hamas downplayed the idea that a breakthrough was imminent. The other thing that happened is having two conservative foreign policy pros feel the president is abandoning U.S. ally Israel. And today, NSC spokesman John Kirby today said, quote, We are willing to adjust the way we're approaching the Israel-Hamas war and the way we're talking about it. What do you think of this? Well, I think they have no choice. Elizabeth, if you look at President Biden's approval rating by issue, the worst one now is his handling of the Israel-Hamas war, second only to the border. The border is number two. But think about that. And here he's taken his worst issue in terms of handling. He's left no one happy about this and goes in either leaks, previews or gets ahead of Israel and the Palestinians by talking about a ceasefire. So and look, it's so funny because you know that they were saying his handlers, I think his communications staff. Wow, that needs to be changed up. I think we're going to find out one day that Joe Biden's communications team and whoever is operating Kamala Harris's teleprompter were Trump moles. There's no other explanation for any of this, but they probably told him, hey, it'll look like you're more in touch. You're more cool if you go to an ice cream shop. He goes to an ice cream shop and looks so glib about a possible ceasefire in between Israel and Hamas and and is speaking out of turn, frankly. So I think that his best strategy was when we saw less of him in 2020 Biden from the basement. The more we see about him, the more doubts there are. But on the handling on these issues, people are really digging in. And I was looking at polling just last night. Elizabeth, the mainstream media polling in the academic polls show that Joe Biden is starting to lose Democrats on the border and on the Israel-Hamas war. He needs to be super, super careful. Interesting. Kellyanne Conway, always great to see you. We appreciate you and your insights. Thanks for joining us.