Obama Says Biden Would Rely on 'Good Instincts'

Obama said Biden would be a president who used his “good instincts” to set a direction for his administration and would leave it to competent aides to work out the details of policy.

The Democratic presidential nominee “understands the importance of surrounding himself with people who are smart” and who “believe in science and believe in expertise and believe in, you know, institutional knowledge and experience,” Obama said in an episode of “Pod Save America” released Wednesday.

Biden will “have a lot of people around him who were able to translate his good instincts into actual policy that works,“ Obama added in the interview by the podcast’s creators, his former aides Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor.

Obama also urged Americans who are “skeptical of what the government can do” to vote in November. “The idea that you’d give away your power because you’re not getting 100% when you could get 30%, 40%, 50% better, that doesn’t make any sense,” he said.

Obama endorsed his former vice president in April, after Biden’s primary opponents had dropped out of the race. Biden has said that Obama would go out to campaign for him in the weeks leading up to Election Day.