An 81-year-old President Joe Biden struggling to convince voters that his mental decline is not a test of his ability in a taped sit-down meeting with former Clinton White House Communications Director George Stephanopoulos.
Former President Barack Obama reportedly delivered a “harsher analysis of the presidential race than his public feedback” on Tuesday, according to the Washington Post, implying that he had defended his former vice president after a disastrous debate performance.
” Bad conversation night happen”, Obama wrote in an online blog following the Atlanta conversation. ” Believe me, I know. However, the winner in this vote must still be someone who has dedicated their whole life to defending the interests of ordinary people. Between a person who tells the truth, knows right from wrong, and did tell the American people the truth, and a person who lies to himself for his personal gain. Last night did n’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November”.
However, according to The Washington Post,” Obama has privately told allies who have reached out to him that President Biden’s already difficult path reelection grew more challenging after his shaky debate performance on Thursday,” according to” several people familiar” with the former president’s behind-the-scenes remarks.
The New York Times followed the statement with a second story that was published on Wednesday morning that a Trump supporter revealed the candidate’s alleged consideration of “whether he can return after a catastrophic performance on the debate stage in Atlanta” before the Democratic Party’s August convention.
Following a disappointing debate performance last week, President Biden has told a key ally that he is aware that he may not be able to win the election if he ca n’t persuade the public in the coming days. The leader must succeed in his next some looks heading into the holiday weekends, including an meeting with ABC News ‘ George Stephanopoulos and campaign stops in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to the ally, who stressed that the alliance is also actively engaged in the battle for re-election.
The New York Times statement was refuted by the White House.
The government’s ABC interview, however, will not show to voters what he obviously thinks it may. Instead of sitting down for a taped interview with a pleasant reporter, Biden and his campaign would agree to take part in the conventional life red carpet, two-hour town hall debate (or, better still, a Lincoln-Douglas style forum with a manager and no mediator ).
Recall the 2020 presidential debate between the two major candidates who opted to skip the second debate and instead convened separate town halls run by opposing networks on the same night. Then, President Donald Trump sat down with Savannah Guthrie, the anchor of” Today,” in Miami, who took over the discussion and started asking the majority of the questions herself. Biden, in contrast, sat down with Stephanopoulos of ABC in Philadelphia, who refused to ask a single question about the discovered Delaware laptop which belonged to his son, Hunter.
One day before what was supposed to be the day of the second presidential debate held in a town hall-style format, The New York Post had dropped its first bombshell story from Hunter Biden’s hard drive. The former vice president had been fabricating his long-running rumor that he had never spoken business with his son story/2019/08/28/biden-brother-business-2020-1476815″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>or with anyone else for years. Biden’s ABC town hall’s morning news release revealed a second story that revealed the presidential candidate’s personal earning potential in the millions from Chinese adversaries. Instead, Stephanopoulos conducted a soft-ball interview with some audience-selected interview questions.
” What did n’t come up was Hunter Biden”, wrote David Marcus for The Federalist at the time. What did n’t come up were factual assertions from the New York Post, the oldest daily newspaper in the country, that the former vice president had a relationship with a Ukrainian businessman connected to his son. The most important story in America right now was simply ignored.
If the president were serious about demonstrating his mental fortitude to hold the most powerful office in the world, he would recommend to Trump a return to the original joint town hall debate format, which was scrapped in the previous election, and would n’t choose to support a more expensive rerun of 2020.
Another sit- down with Stephanopoulos does n’t prove anything.
