28 Jun, 2024 13:50

Biden won’t drop out of presidential race – campaign official

The US president will continue to seek reelection despite his shaky performance during a debate with Donald Trump, according to Seth Schuster

US President Joe Biden will not drop out of the 2024 election race despite his poor performance during Thursday’s first presidential debate with Donald Trump, campaign spokesperson Seth Schuster has announced.

Following the debate, in which Biden was largely panned, even by fellow Democrats, many in the party suggested that the president should be replaced on the November 5 ballot.

In a text message seen by The Hill, Schuster is apparently attempting to reassure the president’s supporters that he will continue his efforts to be reelected.

“Of course he’s not dropping out,” the campaign spokesperson wrote.

Another member of the president’s team told Politico that Biden will stay in the race because he is “the only person who has ever beaten Donald Trump. He will do it again.” (He didn't beat Trump, he cheated America and Trump)

Biden himself has also dismissed the notion that he should bow out of the race, explaining to reporters at a Waffle House following Thursday’s event that “it’s hard to debate a liar.”

Meanwhile, according to Politico, the Democratic Party is reportedly “panicked” by Biden’s “faltering” display against Trump and is actively discussing the possibility of replacing him with another candidate.

“No one expected this nosedive,” one senior Democratic adviser told the outlet.

Biden “was bad on message, bad on substance, bad on counter-punching, bad on presentation, bad on non-verbals. There was no bright spot in this debate for him.”

Concerns over Biden’s performance have also been expressed by a number of major Democratic donors, with one telling Politico that the president had delivered “the worst performance in history” during the debate and “needs to drop out.”

Biden’s team, however, has been scrambling to explain the president’s poor display. One person close to his election campaign claimed that the 81-year-old was “over-prepared and relying on minutiae when all that mattered was vigor and energy.”

“They prepared him for the wrong debate. He was over-prepared when what he needed was rest. It’s confounding,” the person said.

US media outlets have also suggested that Biden’s shaky performance was due to a cold, which they claim has been confirmed by a doctor who examined the president ahead of the debate.

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28 Jun, 2024 13:57

Liberal US media reacts to Biden debate disaster

The question now is who among serving Democrats would go public and tell the president to drop out of the race, according to one news outlet

US President Joe Biden is likely to come under renewed pressure to end his reelection campaign following his poor performance in his first debate of the year with Donald Trump, various US media sources have suggested. The event, hosted by CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday night was the first of the planned two between the presumed candidates from the main US political parties. It happened unusually early in the election cycle, two months before the Democratic National Convention, where Biden’s nomination is expected to be sealed.

The Biden campaign reportedly leaned on the organizers to adopt a format they believed to be beneficial to their candidate. There was no audience, there were strict time limitationsfor the speakers, and a microphone mute feature was added to stop Trump and Biden from talking over each other the way they did in 2020. Observers largely agree that Biden “had it rough”

The President offered ‘limited resistance’ to Trump

It was a “night of stumbles and falsehoods”, The New York Times declared after the debate was over. The sharpest contrast between the two candidates was in their delivery, with a hoarse-voiced Biden “meandering and mumbling through answers as the former president pressed his case for a second term with limited resistance from his rival.”

Trump was conveying his usual “exaggerations and embellishments” while Biden missed numerous opportunities to fact-check him – a job that CNN insisted should fall on the candidates and not the moderators. The Republican “often filled the vacuum with a torrent of exaggerations, falsehoods and attacks” on his opponent.

One of Biden’s biggest weaknesses is voters’ concern over his age and mental acuity, and the 81-year-old only exacerbated them, NYT said. He made a bad impression not only when he spoke, but also when he did not, as CNN showed both politicians in a split screen.

”For long intervals he stood silent, eyes darting, mouth agape,” while Trump, in contrast, “grinned attentively and waited for his chance to attack.”

Debate focused on Biden

Biden’s performance on Thursday contrasted sharply with his energetic delivery of the State of the Union address in March, The Washington Post said. ”Jousting with an opponent at a debate – rather than giving a scripted speech – is a different animal,” the newspaper said.

The animosity between the candidates was palpable on the stage, and Biden, who is presented by Democrats as a champion of normalcy and decorum, resorted to name-calling his opponent on multiple occasions. He branded Trump a “whiner”, “loser”, “sucker” and “a child,” as well as said the former president had the morals of “an alley cat.”

Biden’s campaign hopes to turn the 2024 election into a referendum on Trump, but “much of the debate wound up focusing on Biden,” the Post said. Its format did not help, but “many of the problems traced to the candidates themselves.”

Candidate swap?

Even Biden’s running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, acknowledged to CNN that the president had “a slow start” before declaring that in November voters will have to choose between a Democratic nominee and the “destruction of democracy.”

A proposal to replace Biden with another candidate gained more traction due to his poor performance, according to the media.

A major Democratic donor quoted by Politico described the night as “the worst performance in history” and said Biden was so “bad that no one will pay attention to Trump’s lies.” The donor urged him to end his campaign. Another one texted: “Time for an open convention.”

A former Biden White House official told Axios: “It’s sad but it also makes me so mad to think of all the smart people lying and trying to make this work,” referring to the Biden campaign.

“The question for the next 72 hours or so is how many Democrats will go public with their concerns – especially those in elected office,” the outlet said.

‘Can’t be real life!’

Some reactions were closer to the ‘plague on both houses’ line. Doug Muzzio, a retired public affairs professor, told The New York Post that the night was “a disaster for Biden”, while Trump was “clear and relatively coherent” and “even though he repeatedly lied, he lies in an articulate way.”

Comedian Jon Steward joked that Biden has disproved a “conspiracy theory” that his staffers pump him with drugs before public events.

”If those drugs don't exist, if there aren’t actually performance-enhancing drugs for these candidates, I could sure f*g use some recreational ones right now, because this cannot be real life! It just can’t!” the political gadfly said while concluding his show

https://www.rt.com/news/600161-biden-trump-debate-disaster/

>>21105382

notable, two people said this a.m. it would be important for Trump to run against Bidan, if they can't take him out, Trump will win, if and only if they dont' cheat again, but they will, so we need to stop this

>>21105412

that is so sad, God bless his family and him, this has to be the worst, they are pretty young

This is point where Trump says, "I really don't know what he said, I don't think he knows either". I love our President

This is where Bidan said the Border Patrol endorsed him, immediately the BP tweeted this out!He lies, lies and lies again. Listening to Bongino on his analysis of how good it went for Trump.

Absolute Annihilation (Ep. 2280) - 06/28/2024

good video if you have 55 minutes

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>>21105690

There are no Trillionaires, the lies are continuous

>>21105690

Did you notice they dragged out the cleft chin guy and even he wasn't functional