Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy acknowledged that he will miss President Joe Biden and their frequently antagonistic relationship.
During an interview with New York Magazine on Wednesday, Doocy spoke about his presence at the Democratic National Convention with Charlotte Klein, a media columnist and features writer.
I do think people needed an outlet to just be excited about something,” the son of Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy told Klein of the convention after Doocy updated his network’s viewers on the convention on Wednesday’s edition of Special Report with host Bret Baier.
Klein observed that the Fox News reporter and Biden had had a series of contentious exchanges over four years, which had garnered attention. He then inquired about Biden’s perspective on the Democratic convention.
Klein wrote:
This is the Fox News take on all this Dem joy: roll their eyes and wait for the sugar high to abate. “At some point they have to do more than just have fun music for every state and talk about who Kamala Harris and Doug are, and how much they miss the Clintons and the Obamas.” Speaking of, what did he think of the Obamas last night? “It was powerful,” “I’m surprised that now that everybody in the world has a platform to put stuff out on social media, nobody can speak like that.” For “two people who are essentially retired from politics, they had such a command of this crowd.
We make our way onto the floor, pushing past the crowd, some of whom ask Doocy for a selfie–despite his being in a bubble other than the one he’s usually a star in. But whatever his politics, they still know him. “This particular crowd are probably, per capita, the highest consumers of White House briefings of anywhere I know in America.”
After reflecting on his brief stay in Chicago in recent days, Klein asked Doocy if he thought Democrats had made the right choice in choosing Vice President Kamala Harris to challenge former President Donald Trump in November.
“Based on this week here, yes, but when I was here for the Biden walkthrough, and just the amount that I had gotten to know him over the last five years—when I saw him looking out at all of this, it seemed like he was thinking, am I doing the right thing?” Doocy replied.
Doocy confirmed that he would regret sparring with Biden during interviews and briefings while serving as the face of Fox News at the White House for many Americans.
“Yes. I really will,” Doocy said. “I don’t think it took long for them to know exactly what to expect from me. They knew I was always going to ask him something hard and he continued to engage for years after that and his team did too… and so yes, I will miss him.”
Klein further noted:
Doocy’s interactions with this administration have been sparky. One of his more memorable exchanges with the president came during the now infamous press conference that Biden gave following former special counsel Robert Hur’s report. “How bad is your memory and can you continue as president?” Doocy asked Biden. “My memory is so bad that I let you speak,” Biden responded. “I thought he had a quick-witted response to me, but ultimately that was the beginning of the end.”
This comes as the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security is facing a major new lawsuit that would force the agency to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request regarding a task force established in Pennsylvania to combat alleged “election threats.”
Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania announced the formation of the “Election Threats Task Force” in a Feb. 29 release, claiming it would provide “trusted election information” and “mitigate threats” to elections.
ark Warner of Virginia noted during a conference that CISA and other agencies resumed their collaboration with social media companies in March.
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