President Joe Biden made a defiant argument tonight in an interview with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos that he is the best and most qualified person to beat Donald Trump.
After Stephanopoulos performed poorly in a debate with Republican rival and former President Donald Trump, and voters raised concerns about his mental and physical condition, Biden repeatedly insisted, “He just had a bad night.”
Even when Stephanopoulos asked Biden whether he would commit to seeking an independent medical evaluation and making the results public, Biden declined to give a direct answer.
“Look, I take cognitive tests every day,” Biden responded. “It’s everything I do. I’m not just running a campaign, I’m running the world.”
The interview was an attempt by Biden’s re-election campaign to cushion the blow from the debate debacle amid growing fears within the Democratic Party about Biden’s suitability as a candidate. The New York Times Reported This evening, just before our interview, Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) announced that he would be meeting with other Senate Democrats next week to discuss their concerns about Biden.
Immediately after the debate, the Biden team proposed: A long list of excuses On his performance: jet lag, tight schedule, cold. Biden also mentioned his travel schedule and bad cold.
“[The doctor] “He just looked at me and said, ‘You’re tired,’” Biden told Stephanopoulos.
But Biden’s debate performance has been so poor that it has shaken even the president’s strongest defenders in the media. To ignore obligatorily As Biden gets older, and it’s “Operation Bubble Wrap” is said to be a name derived from the efforts of White House insiders to carefully manage Biden’s appearances at official functions without showing him as a high-ranking official.
Biden pitched himself to voters in 2020 as a “transition candidate” and a “bridge” for younger Democratic leaders, but when it came time to step down gracefully, he was just as determined as the rest of them to stay in power. Deep-rooted gerontology In both major political parties.
But if Biden’s interview with Stephanopoulos was meant to calm voters and show them the old, spunky Scranton Joe, the problem was that it was asking viewers to see for themselves and believe something that, with a little reason, would be exposed as false: that 81-year-old Joe Biden is the most qualified person in the country to be president right now.
“Do you deny that there have been more mistakes, especially in the last few months?” Stephanopoulos asked.
“Can I run 100 meters flat 10 times? No. But I’m still in good shape,” Biden said.
“Are you weaker?” Stephanopoulos followed.
“No,” Biden said.
like reason‘s Matt Welch wrote This March ~ before Here’s what Biden had to say about his debate failures: “For many who have watched the aging process closely, the White House and the media’s insistence that there is nothing to see here is nothing but blatant gaslighting, and it deepens their distrust of all establishment figures.”
But all indications are that the gaslighting will continue. When asked what it would take to convince Biden that Trump can’t be defeated, he said all it would take was a personal message from God, the Alpha and Omega of the universe, the driving force.
“If the Lord Almighty came down and said to me, I could do it,” Biden said.
