On This Week With George Stephanopoulos, ABC News political analyst and former George W Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd claimed that 2013 had been such a bad 12 months for President Barack Obama that his presidency could not possibly get well.

“A 12 months ago these days he used to be profitable a 50%-plus victory, first individual because Eisenhower to win two terms over 50%, everything gave the impression so nice,” Dowd mentioned. “Ever for the reason that start of the 2d administration, it’s all gone downhill. His presidency, in my opinion, and the credibility of his presidency and the relevancy of his presidency is dramatically in query these days, and I think he can’t get well from it. No president has ever recovered at this point in his presidency.”

Political commentator Donna Brazile disagreed.

“He has three years to recuperate, I think he’ll have a rebound in 2014, especially if the economic system continues to rebound,” she said. “The closing five two-phrases presidents have skilled problems of their fifth 12 months.”

Stephanopoulos and Dowd interrupted and argued that Obama had the bottom average ballot numbers of any president in history.

“I don’t wish to sound like I’m disputing your numbers nowadays,” Brazille said to laughter. “I’ll do it later.”

Watch the clip under, by way of ABC News:

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