Joe Biden continued to fight on Wednesday to save his candidacy for the White House, which has been extremely weakened since his disastrous debate against Donald Trump last week.
“He knows that if he has two more events like this, things will be very different.”reports an anonymous source, quoted Thursday by the New York Times.
The same person confides that the American president, whom even his supporters have criticized for not taking the measure of events, is indeed wondering about the future of his candidacy.
CNN also reports comments from a source close to the 81-year-old Democrat, who claims that Joe Biden is “lucid” on the fact that the next few days will be decisive for his continued participation in the race for the November presidential election.
“This is absolutely false”swept aside his spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre, assuring that the president was not considering ” absolutely not “ to withdraw his candidacy.
Il “keep campaigning”she said.
Bad poll
Nearly a week later, Joe Biden has not erased the very painful impression left by these 90 minutes of debate against his Republican rival, during which he stammered, stared into space and sometimes lost his train of thought.
According to a New York Times poll conducted after the show, 74% of voters now express concern about the Democratic leader’s age, and Donald Trump has significantly widened his lead over Joe Biden in the race for the White House.
Joe Biden plans to give an interview with ABC television on Friday and hold a solo news conference next week, aiming to demonstrate his ability to speak fluently without a teleprompter.
He will also travel to two key states in the coming days, Michigan and Pennsylvania, where his energy will be tested.
A senior member of the Democrat’s campaign team, Quentin Fulks, assured CNN that Joe Biden, who has overcome many family tragedies and major political setbacks, will ” to fight “.
Governors
Many Democrats, including party figures like Nancy Pelosi, have publicly questioned the president’s mental acuity. Open calls for withdrawal have so far been confined to a handful of little-known lawmakers.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden aims to close the Democratic ranks around him.
He met with his party’s influential Senate leader, Chuck Schumer, and will meet with Democratic governors at the White House at 22:30 GMT.
“We will have a healthy discussion with the president”one of them, JB Pritzker of Illinois, explained on CNN Tuesday night.
“At this point, Joe Biden is our candidate, I am 100% behind his candidacy, unless he makes another decision, in which case we will all discuss the best way forward,” he added.
The governor of Illinois, but also those of California (Gavin Newsom), Michigan (Gretchen Whitmer) and Pennsylvania (Josh Shapiro) are considered potential future candidates for the White House.
No one has so far publicly challenged the candidacy of Joe Biden, who crushed the Democratic primary without having a real opponent.
Joe Biden’s campaign team released a new video on Wednesday, after the Supreme Court extended presidential immunity on Monday, a victory for Donald Trump, who has been criminally indicted several times.
The highest American court “decided that the president can disregard the law even to commit a crime because Donald Trump asked him to”assures the narrator, against a backdrop of images of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by supporters of the former president.
