Fox’s Peter Doocy on Biden: ‘I Will Miss Him’

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy admitted he will miss President Joe Biden and their often adversarial relationship Wednesday during an interview with New York Magazine .

Doocy has been at the Democratic National Convention where he gave a cordial interview to features writer and media columnist Charlotte Klein , who described him as affable and happy to be in Chicago.

After Doocy updated his network’s viewers on the convention on Wednesday’s edition of Special Report with host Bret Baier , the son of Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy told Klein of the convention, “I do think people needed an outlet to just be excited about something.”

Klein noted the Fox News reporter and Biden had spent the better part of four years making headlines through tense exchanges and probed him about his thoughts on the Democrats’ convention. Klein wrote:

This is the Fox News take on all this Dem joy: roll their eyes and wait for the sugar high to abate. “At some point they have to do more than just have fun music for every state and talk about who Kamala Harris and Doug are, and how much they miss the Clintons and the Obamas.” Speaking of, what did he think of the Obamas last night? “It was powerful,” “I’m surprised that now that everybody in the world has a platform to put stuff out on social media, nobody can speak like that.” For “two people who are essentially retired from politics, they had such a command of this crowd.”

We make our way onto the floor, pushing past the crowd, some of whom ask Doocy for a selfie–despite his being in a bubble other than the one he’s usually a star in. But whatever his politics, they still know him. “This particular crowd are probably, per capita, the highest consumers of White House briefings of anywhere I know in America.”

Klein asked Doocy after reflecting on his brief time in Chicago in recent days if he believed Democrats had made the right choice in choosing Vice President Kamala Harris to face former President Donald Trump in November.

“Based on this week here, yes, but when I was here for the Biden walkthrough, and just the amount that I had gotten to know him over the last five years—when I saw him looking out at all of this, it definitely seemed like he was thinking, am I doing the right thing?” Doocy replied.

As far as whether the face of Fox News at the White House for many Americans would miss sparring with Biden during interviews and briefings, the former confirmed he would.

“Yes. I really will,” Doocy said. “I don’t think it took long for them to know exactly what to expect from me. They knew I was always going to ask him something hard and he continued to engage for years after that and his team did too… and so yes, I will miss him.” Klein further noted:

Doocy’s interactions with this administration have been sparky. One of his more memorable exchanges with the president came during the now infamous press conference that Biden gave following former special counsel Robert Hur’s report. “How bad is your memory and can you continue as president?” Doocy asked Biden. “My memory is so bad that I let you speak,” Biden responded. “I thought he had a quick-witted response to me, but ultimately that was the beginning of the end.”

Biden made headlines in 2022 when he called Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch” on a hot mic while speaking at the White House. Doocy had asked Biden, “Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?”

The president later called and apologized to the Fox News reporter for the comment.