Former President Barack Obama’s adviser David Axelrod blasts President Joe Biden’s economic strategies, revealing it drove him crazy when the president tried to boast of his economy as Americans struggle to afford groceries and more, Fox News reported.

Axelrod made this remark during an appearance on Bill Kristol’s podcast. He also pointed out that the president’s strategy wouldn’t work.

“I wouldn’t go out there and extol the miracle of the Biden economy. It just drives me crazy when he does that,” Axelrod said.

Axelrod also highlighted Biden’s Easter interview with Al Roker, arguing that the president’s claim that the economy is the strongest in the world is the wrong strategy.

“Instead of sort of doing what you’d expect Joe Biden to do because he’s a person of empathy who grew up in a working-class circumstance and identifies with the concern,” Axelrod said. “He said, ‘You know, I’d tell them we’ve got the strongest economy in the world and, you know, we’re, and he continues to do that. That is the wrong strategy,” Axelrod said.

Axelrod suggested that Biden should put himself on the side of working people.

“The right strategy is to say, ‘Look, we’ve made a lot of progress from the day I walked in the door as a country and I’m proud of our country for fighting through this pandemic and getting her back to where we’ve got this much employment,” he said. “How much did you pay for the groceries? How do you afford the gas and the rent? So I think he needs to put himself on the side of working people in their economic fight here.”

Axelrod further expressed concerns about Biden’s chances of winning the election. He points out that polls show Biden trailing former President Donald Trump in hypothetical matchups. 

“Bottom line, be more like Joe from Scranton and less like President Biden from Washington,” he said. “Because those are the voters, Bill, who will decide this election. Working class people, Black, White and Hispanic, who are very much scuffling still in an economy that has improved.