US President Joe Biden’s family has urged him to ignore calls to withdraw his election candidacy after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump.
After the debate, the US presidential campaign entered a chaotic phase. Suddenly, his most pressing question was whether Joe Biden, in principle, was capable of running for re-election. The most influential and even traditionally pro-democratic American media are calling on Biden to leave the race, while the family of the US president is calling on him to continue the election fight.
Family support
Biden spent last Sunday with his loved ones, who urged him to continue the fight and participate in the presidential election in November, reports CBS News.
A photo session of members of the Biden family with the participation of the famous photographer Annie Leibovitz took place at the US Presidential residence Camp David in Maryland. Among those present were Biden’s wife Jill, his children and grandchildren.
Jill Biden told Vogue in a phone call from Camp David that family members “will not let these 90 minutes define his four years as president.”
Biden’s family will continue to fight, he said, adding that his wife will “always do what’s best for the country.”
According to some reports, some of Biden’s relatives blamed the poor performance of his aides on over-preparation for the president. A person close to Biden’s wife, Jill, told CBS that she was not among those criticizing his team.
Calls to action
Parts of the Democratic Party were left stunned by Biden’s rambling and sometimes inconsistent performance during the debate. Polls since then show concerns about his age — he’s 81 — have only grown.
A CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday found that 72% of registered Democratic voters believe the president lacks the mental and emotional health to serve as president. Almost half of those surveyed said he should resign.
“The shadow of a good public servant,” is how the influential American newspaper The New York Times summed up Joe Biden’s participation in the debate, which in an editorial on June 28 called on him to withdraw from the election in the presidency.
“It’s a huge gamble to expect the American people to ignore or ignore Biden’s age and frailty, which they can see with their own eyes,” the NYT concluded after the nation debated Biden’s once-confused remarks, blank stare, silent, hoarse voice voice and his general physical weakness in the debates, even behind the US President’s attempts to counter the more assertive Trump’s lies with numbers and facts.
In a separate column, Biden was even called to quit the race by his favorite political commentator, Thomas Friedman – also a journalist for the New York Times – who wrote that he couldn’t hold back tears while watching the debate.
Didn’t the debates influence the vote?
Polls say the debate would have had no effect on the level of support between Trump and Biden if it came to voting today. After the debate, 46.7% of likely voters said they intended to vote for Biden, just 1.6 percentage points lower than before the debate. Trump’s support remained unchanged. After the debate, the number of likely voters who said they would vote for the former US president rose by just a fraction of a percentage point, from 43.5% to 43.9%, according to a poll conducted by Ipsos in conjunction with the website 538 .
Source: korrespondent
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