The press is engaged in an all-out blitz to oust President Joe Biden following the frail 81-year-old commander-in-chief’s disastrous debate performance last month.
The New York Times has published not one, but two editorials calling on the Democrat incumbent to step down from the party’s top ticket just weeks before the August convention. The second column, published Monday, followed their first post, which was put up the day after the prime-time event.
“At Thursday’s debate, the president needed to convince the American public that he was equal to the formidable demands of the office he is seeking to hold for another term,” the Times editorial board wrote. “Voters, however, cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago.”
Biden, however, has remained stubbornly defiant even as ranking House Democrats join the open chorus calling on him to gracefully step down.
“I am not going anywhere,” the president said on MSNBC’s Monday edition of “Morning Joe.”
Biden has good reason to believe voters will, in The New York Times’ words, “ignore what was instead plain to see,” namely, his nakedly obvious decline on national display. That’s because four years ago, voters did ignore Biden’s cognitive deterioration. Biden previously confused his wife and sister on stage, mumbled through the words of the Declaration of Independence, swapped “Super Tuesday” with “Super Thursday,” mixed up which office he was campaigning for, and wondered which state he was in, more than once. This was all before Biden was nominated in 2020.
