BUCK: It’s a really tough sell at this stage even for Biden himself to make that this administration is not just a catastrophe. I thought it would be bad. I have received, at some level, Clay, a humility prediction here because I thought it would be bad, but I was actually worried that just by existing post-pandemic, he’d have a pretty strong economy to work with. But, no, I underestimated the ability…

I knew he would be bad, but I underestimated how bad he could actually be. That’s the best way I could put it, and I think everyone listening knows that. They feel the same way. They’re like, “Well, this guy is a joke, but a deeply unfunny joke now.” A reporter today asked Biden about a poll that shows that 66% of Democrats — Democrats, not general electorate — don’t want him to be the nominee. Here’s how oh-so-cool, calm, collected, unifying, cuddly Biden responds.

“What’s your message to Democrats who don’t want you to run again?”

BIDEN: “Read the polls! Read the polls, Jack! You guys are all the same.” pic.twitter.com/e0G3Sfufwm

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 12, 2022

BUCK: He doesn’t understand polls, I think. Usually, I would say he’s lying. But, Clay, do you think he can actually process the difference between, “Do Democrats want Joe Biden to be their nominee?” and “If it has to be Biden, they’d vote for him over Trump”? This is not the compelling argument that Biden seems to think it is.

CLAY: Yeah, and that number came out in the New York Times poll — a poll that I think most people would recognize, given the New York Times’ history, is not going to be favorable to Republicans. So this was a poll of Democrats asking if they wanted the sitting incumbent president to run again, and nearly two-thirds of them said, “No, we don’t want you to run.” Buck, we’ve never seen anything like this.

No one who is living today has ever seen a sitting incumbent president have this little support for reelection in basically our lives. And that’s why I think that he is going to decide — in February or March — not to run. And by “decide,” I mean, the Democrats are going to force him to announce that he’s not going to run. Biden landed… Did you see the footage of Biden landing in Israel earlier this morning, Buck? They were trying to avoid… They made a big show of Joe Biden’s not gonna shake hands with anyone.

If you’re keeping score at home, Lapid got a fist-bump from Biden on the latter’s arrival in Israel. Netanyahu got a handshake and, according to Israeli media, Biden told him “you know I love you” https://t.co/DmkNG7zz72

— Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) July 13, 2022

And initially he was fist bumping and then he started shaking hands. And while you’re sitting out there saying, “Wait a minute. He shook hands with 500 people at this gun-legislation signing bill. The next day suddenly it’s not safe to do it?” What they’re trying to avoid is a photo of Biden shaking hands with Mohammed bin Salman, MBS, who is basically running Saudi Arabia, because Biden said he runs a pariah state, and he would never interact with him.

So now they’re just trying to get away with, in the Middle East, fist bumping, yet Biden himself has already landed and started shaking hands. The guy is clueless on a level that a president has never been clueless in any of our lives; and increasingly — you heard Newt Gingrich yesterday on the show with us, Buck — say it was unfair to compare Biden and Carter because Carter was so much more competent than Biden could have ever dreamed of being. And it just keeps getting worse for Biden on a day-to-day basis.