The Democratic National Convention kicked off in Chicago this week, with President Joe Biden delivering Monday's keynote address.

While Biden repeated a debunked claim about former President Donald Trump, some observers said the speech actually amounted to his political eulogy.  

"He was bullied out of this race"

According to Breitbart, that claim was put forward by Republican political consultant Scott Jennings during an appearance on CNN.

"Biden is known in his career as being one of the best eulogy givers at funerals. And now they're making him come and give his own career eulogy," Jennings said before the president took the stage.

.@ScottJenningsKY: "Biden is known in his career as being one of the best eulogy givers at funerals and now they're making him come and give his own eulogy at this convention.... he was bullied of this race after 52 years of service to the Democratic Party. And it wasn‘t all… pic.twitter.com/GHMnUEdJUq

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"I am anxious to see how he handles it," the political strategist continued. "I mean, he was bullied out of this race after 52 years of service to the Democratic Party."

"And it wasn't all about his age," Jennings insisted. "He was unpopular. He was going to lose. It was Afghanistan. It was immigration. It was inflation."

"He's not here in a happy moment"

"And he had to be dragged out by the fingernails. I'm sorry — he's not here in a happy moment. This yarn that is being spun in this hall that he was popular and selfless in handing off," Jennings declared.

"No, no — it is the opposite and everybody knows it. Yet the Democrats are engaging in this theater of looking at the cameras and saying it as though it is not true," he concluded.

Jennings is not alone in making that assessment, as The Economist published a similar take after the president had spoken to delegates.

It said that Biden "delivered his own eulogy" but "lacked the grace the moment called for" and "spent far more time recounting his accomplishments" than he did making the case for Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Economist: Biden set an "angry" tone

The president at one point boasted that his term in office has been "one of the most extraordinary four years of progress ever. Period."

Yet the magazine also complained that Biden's "tone was forceful and even angry, as has been true of most of his speeches in the past year."

The Economist further lamented that "this once wildly riffing performer has become stuck at the somber end of the keyboard."