People in Smyrna, Ga., watch the CNN Presidential Debate between President Biden and former president Donald Trump on Thursday. The New York Times editorial board on Friday called on President Biden to abandon his reelection campaign after his widely criticized performance in his first 2024 debate against former president Donald Trump.as appearing to be “the shadow of a great public servant” in the debate, during which he repeatedly misspoke and struggled to complete answers.
“Mr. Biden has been an admirable president,” said the unsigned opinion, as is typical for pieces representing the editorial board’s judgment collectively. “Under his leadership, the nation has prospered and begun to address a range of long-term challenges, and the wounds ripped open by Mr. Trump have begun to heal. But the greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for reelection.
“The last time Joe Biden lost the New York Times editorial board’s endorsement it turned out pretty well for him,” Biden campaign co-chair Cedric L. Richmond said in a statement., Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren . Biden went on to win the primary, and the editorial board did end upBiden sought to quell concerns about his candidacy during a post-debate rally earlier Friday in North Carolina. Biden, 81, told supporters in Raleigh he knows he is “not a young man, to state the obvious.
A Biden campaign spokesperson, Michael Tyler, also dismissed the idea that the president would consider stepping aside. “There are no conversations about that whatsoever,” Tyler told reporters on Air Force One. “The Democratic voters … nominated Joe Biden. Joe Biden’s the nominee.”afternoon, The Washington Post’s editorial board wrote that Biden’s debate performance “raises legitimate questions about whether he’s up for another four years in the world’s toughest job” but didn’t explicitly call on him to step aside.that it was “obvious nearly a year ago that President Biden shouldn’t run for a second term.
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