CNN host tells Biden campaign co-chairman that “most” of the anti-Trump “talking points” he made are “definitely true.”

CNN host Sara Sidner told President Joe Biden's campaign co-chairman Mitch Landrieu on Monday that most of the “talking points” he recited against former President Donald Trump are “definitely true.”

CNN does this often fact checked Trump after speeches and the network's top fact-checker targets the former president much more than Biden. Landrieu on “CNN News Central” spent several minutes targeting Trump and promoting Biden, with Sidner largely agreeing as the campaign co-chairman told the host it was all real.

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Sidner began by asking Landrieu about Biden's novelty ad attacking Trump for being a convicted felon, characterizing it as a departure from his previous campaign strategy.

“Well, first of all, it's not a change,” Landrieu said. “When the case was in litigation, the president did not comment on it. Clearly, this was a case brought by an independent district attorney and there is no, no facts or evidence to support Donald Trump's attempt to take the spotlight off himself. But what this ad is about is showing the American people the issue that will decide this campaign. Wisdom, courage, character. You can choose between two people. You have someone like Joe Biden who wakes up every day. He is fighting hard for American citizens. He is working hard to lower prices. It is building 56,000 projects across the country.”

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accused Trump in the trial that led to his crime conviction. Bragg's lead prosecutor in the case, Matthew Colangelohe was Biden's acting associate attorney general and spent two years at his Department of Justice (DOJ) before that coming together the Manhattan District Attorney's Office as lead counsel in December 2022.

CNN presents Kate Bolduan in May asked Biden's 2024 campaign communications director Michael Taylor on whether a press conference outside the Trump trial backfired after Trump supporters swarmed and shouted Hollywood actor Robert De Niro in the middle of his march. Bolduan asked Tyler if the campaign event lent credence to Trump's argument that the trial has political motivations.

Sidner then asked Landrieu about an earlier segment Monday where CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten pointed out Trump is “heading for a historic performance” with black voters in the 2024 election as Biden loses them.

“Are you worried about that?” Sidner asked.

“There is no universe in which Donald Trump gets 21 percent of the black vote,” Landrieu responded. “That will never happen. And so it's not that we're not worried about it, but we're fighting very, very hard for every vote.”

Enten also said that with an independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr Including the vote, Biden and Trump perform worse with black voters, but that hurts the current president more.

“In fact, President Biden has created 15 million jobs since he took office. “Donald Trump lost 2.5 million jobs, the largest job loss in the nation's history for any president except for Herbert Hoover,” Landrieu added.

When Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., made a similar claim in April, MSNBC host Katy Tur pushed back. saying how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the economy under Trump, with Pelosi appearing to lose her cool as a result. Before pandemic in 2020, the former president's economy saw an increase in median household income, as well as a all time low poverty rate and unemployment rates in the minimum of 50 years, seconds to a Trump White House press release.

Landrieu acknowledged that Biden's economy is experiencing problems, but said the country is doing “fine” economically.

“Look, the economy is doing well by every measure,” Sidner said. “Yes, the prices are high. There was also the infrastructure bill that some Republicans in their states have been promoting, not giving credit to Joe Biden, but telling their citizens that this is a great thing. Look at the roads, look at the bridges, we're doing things. But the message doesn't seem to be affecting voters. Why do you think this is and how do you think this needs to change?”

Landrieu disputed the question's premise and touted Biden's record on those issues, saying it would “resonate” with voters. He also claimed that “Trump was asking people to drink Clorox,” a claim Biden made in 2020, which PolitiFact rated like “mostly false”.

“Donald Trump, like you know, you know this, I don't have to sell you this,” Landrieu told Sidner. “The boy gets up, thinks about himself. He looks in the mirror and decides who he needs to punch in the face because he's mad about something.”

“I think Donald Trump is a joke,” he added. “When his lips move, he lies.”

The campaign co-chair suggested that the comparison of Biden and Trump's cognitive health and fitness has no merit.

“I think you got all the talking points today,” Sidner said.

“Only the truth, Sara, is the whole truth. Check me, Harry,” Landrieu replied, referring to Enten.

“Harry will fact check you, but I know most of what you said is true,” the host said.

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