The president’s latest attempted reasons come directly from the president himself, with Joe Biden and his team still spouting a torrent of excuses for his terrible second 2024 conversation efficiency.
During a sitdown interview with ABC News ‘ George Stephanopoulos on Friday, Biden blamed exhaustion, a “bad night”, not listening to his “instincts in terms of preparing”, a “really bad cold” and “feeling terrible”, former President Donald Trump “l]ying ] 28 times”, and Trump” shouting” and distracting him.
These justifications come after the White House made a week-long campaign to support Biden’s quite subpar debate performance. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for her part cited jet lag, a warm, and old years before claiming the president is” as strong as always” at a press briefing on Wednesday, just before the long weekend.
” There’s no question that international travel can be strenuous. I believe the confusion is that he is also suffering from that nearly two weeks afterwards,” a reporter inquired. Do you often have lodging for him after he makes a trip because he’s going to experience jet lag for that long a period of time?
” It’s the jet lag and also the cold, right”? Jean- Pierre insisted,” It is the two points, uh, that occurred”.
She eventually framed the defense of Biden as an explanation, never an excuse — but the excuses have included not only illness and jet lag but older age, over- rehearsing, a bad venue, and his bedtime. A White House official attempted to explain Biden’s whispering voice and slow start, telling The Hill that the leader was experiencing a warm times after the conversation began.  ,
John Morgan, a crucial Biden charity, offered a series of excuses for the leader, telling Reuters next week,” It is my belief that he was over- managed, over- used. And I believe]senior director ] Anita Dunn … put him in a place that was suitable for Trump and not for him”.
Meanwhile, in the week after the debate, Jill Biden said the president is” not a young man” and that he “did n’t feel that great”, and President Biden repeated the jetlag excuse.
” I decided to travel around the world a couple of times, going through I do n’t how many times zones”, the president said. Therefore, when I returned, I nearly slept on stage.
Biden left Europe just before the conversation on June 27.
According to The New York Times, Biden told Democrat rulers he needs more rest, less work, and to cut down on his events after 8 p. m. White House aides told Axios Biden functions properly within a six- hours time windows, from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m.
The panicking media and Democrat politicians who continue to call for Biden’s replacement have neither cooled the voters ‘ concerns nor the excuses from the White House. In response to Joe Biden’s deposition performance, The Washington Post, CNN, and even The New York Times Editorial Board published requests for his nomination.  , Democrat Reps. Lloyd Doggett of Texas and Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, the first to call for the president to withdraw from the race, have been joined by “prominent House Democrats”, including Reps.  , Jerry Nadler , and , Joe Morelle , of New York,  , Jim Himes , of Connecticut,  , Mark Takano , of California, and Adam Smith , of Washington.
Monroe Harless is a summer intern at The Federalist. She recently received degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Georgia.
