Alexi Lalas gives brutal verdict on Joe Biden as controversial FOX Sports analyst attends DNC in Chicago: ‘Cold, sad, and irrelevant’
Alexi Lalas has slammed Joe Biden after watching the president’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday.
The former U.S. national team star, now a controversial analyst, attended the Republican Party convention in Milwaukee last month.
Lalas, who previously revealed he is a “proud registered Republican,” has now crossed the political divide and taken on the DNC in Chicago.
Biden delivered an emotional farewell speech on the first day of the convention, just a month after dropping out of the White House race following a disastrous debate.
Lalas ridiculed the president’s speech, writing on social media: “Biden shouting all night was cold, sad and irrelevant.”
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He added: ‘It was: cold – he was relegated to the darkness of the late evening. Sad – being thrown out of the election and left screaming in the abyss of midnight was not how he (or [wife] Jill) had an idea that the story would end.
‘Irrelevant – Nothing he said changed a single vote…even if someone stayed.’
Lalas joked that the speech was so long that “even (Donald) Trump thinks Biden should stop.”
But the FOX Sports analyst, who was a star for the US during the 1994 World Cup, also criticized the way Biden was thrown out of the race by the Democratic Party machinery.
“Millions of Americans voted for a candidate, and the GOP honored and respected those votes and voters,” Lalas said.
‘Instead of, for example, organizing an emergency change and installing another candidate who they think has a better chance of winning.’
Lalas also attended the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this summer