After a week of frantic machinations, Democrats believed they were getting through to President Biden about the serious trouble his campaign is in.
His first televised interview since the presidential debate made clear that isn’t the case—setting the stage for a more acrimonious phase of the efforts by some in the party to push him off the ticket.
“I’ve convinced myself of two things: I’m the most qualified person to beat [Trump], and I know how to get things done,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos in the 22-minute interview that the network aired in its entirety Friday evening. He repeatedly rebuffed the idea that his campaign is swooning in the polls, that he might not have what it takes to continue for the next four years or that more thorough medical examination of his neurological state might be warranted.
The interview, billed as a chance for Biden to put his party’s worries about his capacity to rest, seems likely only to inflame them. Though he was mostly cogent, the president appeared to be in denial about the crisis that has engulfed his party and firmly dug in on staying in the race. If he is to leave the Democratic ticket, it seems he won’t do so willingly.
But if Biden can’t or won’t see what so many others see, the party could be headed for an ugly and protracted stalemate.
And the goodwill most Democrats feel toward him might begin to dissipate.
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Biden needs to stay on the ticket. The Dems spent years building this horror, and they need to sit there and be run over by the landslide they so patiently engineered by gaslighting the American public.
@S3curityHyenaRepublican2yrs2Y
Bigger scandal than Watergate has been foisted on us by this Administration and a compliant press
I am not aligned with the Republican party in any way and will not be voting for Trump. Forget the upcoming election. Biden needs to resign now. He does not have the mental acuity to claim the mantel of the most powerful leader of the free world. Any argument that Democrats want to make about the dangers of a Trump presidency is utterly meaningless if they continue to support the Biden presidency.
@CrushedT4riffGreen2yrs2Y
very annoying that there are like 50 people in the White House and in the media who could blow the whistle on the cover up and/or seriously press Biden to get out now but they are all waiting to write their million-dollar “what went wrong” tell-all book after Biden loses
@Xemplary1976Republican2yrs2Y
Plain and simple, the worst political cover-up in U.S. history. The entire Democratic Party in conjunction with a complicit media deceived the nation (and world) about Biden’s dementia. My mother has dementia, she has been institutionalized for 3 years. Biden is running about 18 months behind Mom in demonstrable symptoms. Terrifying situation for our nation to be at risk this way…. but for the Democrats, power is more important, the nation be damned
Pretty binary options:
1. There was a massive coverup by the Biden White House to keep the president's undiagnosed cognitive decline from being exposed.
OR
2. There was a massive coverup by the Biden White House to keep the president's diagnosed cognitive decline from being exposed.
If it is (1), which it is at a minimum, it is very politically damaging to Joe Biden, his administration, and his campaign.
If it is (2), it is right up there w/ WMD & Russia-gate in its historic implications.
Would the Biden family, seeing the decline, really leave him undiagnosed?
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