2024-07-03 14:41:59
Text: Cuba News 360 Editorial Team
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Even though he had not been formally nominated by his party, Joe Biden decided to accept the challenge of facing his opponent Donald Trump, in a fateful presidential debate that calls into question his re-election, and opens a climate of tension and panic among Democrats, about whether he is the ideal candidate to represent them.
Far from giving a new impetus to his re-election bid, many international analysts and politicians have described his performance as disastrous. “Hesitant and disjointed,” wrote The New York Times (NYT).
In 90 minutes, the outlet reports, “a raspy-voiced Biden struggled to deliver his lines and counter a sharp but deeply dishonest former President Donald Trump, raising questions about the current president’s ability to run a vigorous, competitive campaign four months before the election. Rather than dispel doubts about his age, Biden, 81, made them the central issue.”
Biden thought that by agreeing to the debate early, he was recalibrating the contest as a choice between himself and a criminal “who tried to overturn an election and would destroy American democracy if he ever regained power of the presidency. Biden left the CNN studio in Atlanta facing a referendum on himself and his competence that will resonate for days, if not longer,” writes Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent.
Many outlets agree that Trump got through the debate without too many problems, despite his falsehoods. “He appeared confident and avoided the same overly arrogant behavior that hurt him during his first debate with Biden in 2020, seemingly content to let his opponent wallow in his own difficulties,” the NYT reports.
Biden’s own advisers, meanwhile, have avoided talking about his possible resignation, dismissing such talk “as unwarranted nervousness, even as he has fallen behind Trump in the battleground states needed for victory this fall.”
Remember, no sitting president has ever dropped out of the race when the campaign cycle is at this point, and there are many opinions about what would happen if he did.