Politico’s senior political columnist Jonathan Martin tore into President Joe Biden on Friday for not doing extra to achieve out to Republicans who’ve publicly mentioned they will now not vote for Donald Trump.

Martin opened his column by way of noting that former GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie determined this week not to run on a third-birthday celebration “No Labels” ticket with a Democrat.

“How has Biden no longer called Christie, whom he’s known for the reason that former governor was once in student government as a College of Delaware undergraduate, to ask for his make stronger? Or, if he thought that too soon or too direct, he may at the least have requested Christie to get collectively. However that ask has now not been made,” Martin wrote, including:

It’s political malpractice. And Christie isn’t the only anti-Trump Republican or impartial waiting for his or her telephone to ring.

Prominent former GOP officeholders, from George W. Bush to Mike Pence to Paul Ryan, also haven’t been contacted.

The identical goes for former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who, like Christie, flirted with a No Labels run. Requested in January if Biden ever contacted him, in all probability about an ambassadorship, Hogan mentioned no.

MSNBC’s Chris Jansing spoke to Mike Memoli on Friday about Martin’s criticism and whether or not or not Biden will look to win over the guts.

“Mike, what are you able to inform us about their plans to reach out to the middle?” Jansing asked.

“Smartly, President Biden raised some huge cash remaining night, and we get a way today of how he’s going to spend that cash. At this donor meeting he held these days, his senior administration workforce leadership group debuted an ad which is going proper after Nikki Haley voters,” Memoli replied, adding:

This ad will embody Donald Trump’s personal words, calling her a ‘birdbrain,’ saying according to a question from Garrett Hake that he doesn’t assume he desires her voters.

And so this speaks to the demographic breakdown that they’ve been monitoring very intently in all these primaries and caucuses, even because Nikki Haley has dropped out, the place Trump’s make stronger has been mushy, where they believe there are voters to be poached, and now they’re putting that on the airwaves as smartly.

Martin introduced in his column, “I reached out to each current Republican lawmaker who has refused to commit to Trump in the common election. Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Mitt Romney (Utah), Todd Young (Indiana), Bill Cassidy (Louisiana), and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) all stated the same: they’ve no longer heard from Biden.”

“It’s stunning. It’s particularly shocking because President Biden does take into account the Senate, he has personal relationships with some of us,” Collins responded to Martin, given Biden’s lengthy historical past in the Senate.

Watch the clip above by the use of MSNBC.

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