Should Biden stay or go? GOP consultant Stuart Stevens says "there's no reason not to continue to support what has been the most successful first term president since World War II." But Anne Applebaum says "an election is not about the past, it's about the future."
Why didn't the media report more on Biden's struggles before the debate? "I don't care that neither candidate would cooperate," says former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson. "You need to have a team of very well-informed medical and political reporters doing a deep dive into the health of Trump and Biden."
More than a week after a disastrous debate, President Joe Biden sat down with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News to answer some of the tough questions his performance raised about his ability to run for office. Biden repeated many of the claims his team had already made since last Thursday: he was sick, he was exhausted, and yes, he had a bad night, but it wasn’t an “indication of any serious condition.”
He made clear he would not consider dropping out of the presidential race, with one concession—”if the Lord Almighty comes down” to tell him to.
Whether or not God intervenes, Democrats are beginning to step in.
President Joe Biden tried to recover from a disastrous first debate performance and reassure American voters that he’s not too old or cognitively impaired to run the country by sitting down for a primetime interview with ABC’s George Stephenopolous on Friday. Yet it’s his interviews with local radio hosts that are now drawing scrutiny because of the seemingly outsized level of planning on the president’s behalf.
Andrew Lawful-Sanders, host of “The Source” on WURD in Philadelphia, said during an appearance on CNN that Biden’s team gave her a list of eight questions before an interview on Wednesday.