• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    In a taped interview that lasted only 22 minutes, the President insisted his dire poll numbers weren’t real — ‘fake news’, if you will — that the Democratic party has no concerns about his fitness to lead, and that the only way he would exit the race is ‘if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me’.

    If Americans had a shred of sympathy for Biden after last week’s CNN debate — if they felt that perhaps he didn’t know how dire his condition was, that likely his family were keeping him in the race for their own purposes — well, Joe took that notion into the public square and shot it dead.

    This interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, meant to be damage control, has only further enraged Democrat politicians and big donors who, since that calamitous Trump debate, have pressed the President to step aside.

    He can’t recall if he watched last week’s debate — effectively the end of his political career — or he’s utterly sure despite the panic among the liberal elite, party donors and all of America’s mass media that he’s fine and they’re wrong?

    In March, one month after Special Counsel Robert Hur’s finding that Biden was ‘an elderly man with a poor memory’ who couldn’t remember when his son Beau died, or the years he served as Vice President, New York Times critic A.O.

    When asked by Stephanopoulos if, by refusing to step aside, Trump — remember, greatest threat to democracy, the guy who will never leave, no matter what, ahem — wins this election, Biden shrugged:


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  • retrospectology@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, meant to be damage control, has only further enraged Democrat politicians and big donors who, since that calamitous Trump debate, have pressed the President to step down.

    There is some bitter humor in seeing the party elites get the same stonewalling treatment that the anti-genocide coalition got months ago (which they helped reinforce). Doesn’t feel so great when it’s happening to them too I guess.