Biden blames jet lag and travel for poor debate performance
Biden blames jet lag and travel for poor debate performance
The president's comments come after a first Democrat in Congress called for him to withdraw from the election.
That’s weird. I thought they said it was because he had a cold.
This is why people shouldn't need to have to choose between two 80 year old candidates
The presidency requires a lot of travel. If your performance and capabilities are significantly affected by jet lag, you probably shouldn't be the president of a large and powerful nation. I imagine Trump will be affected just as much by jet lag as well if he were elected.
If he would actually work. The last time he just did a record amount of golfing and shitposting.
Why is every doom and gloom political post always from a less than 1 month old account? Suspicious that.
I recently switched to Lemmy from Reddit. You can find a much longer post history from me on Reddit. Same username.
There's literally no reason to believe you are the same person. We we believed that, it would be an excellent way to exploit us.
Even so, this ain't Reddit. You need to go ahead and learn that right now.
You're new here, and you're posting stuff that opposes the only person standing between America and a rapid fall into violent authoritarianism. Welcome to Lemmy and don't carry water for fascists if you want to have a good time.
From the article:
Mr Biden, 81, last returned from travel on 15 June, nearly two weeks ahead of the 27 June debate.
Stop pushing age as the problem with Biden. The problem with Biden is Trump. If you don't vote for biden, you get trump.
Fuck off and stop trying to ruin the country.
I don’t care about Joe Biden’s age. I care about the fact that the Democrats are obviously lying to us.
It took days for them to come up with the “jet lag” explanation (though they instantly said it was a cold), and he hasn’t travelled internationally for two weeks. Come on, they’re lying.
For many people, I think the shock of Biden’s debate performance was less about the shock of Biden being feeble and more about the shock of realizing that the Democrats have been lying about his feebleness for so long
The problem with Biden is that he's going to lose to Trump. Voters' major concern about Biden was his age, and he completely validated those concerns last week. His polls are bad and getting worse, and we can't wait and see if they get better; we don't have that much time to waste. We need to replace him.
A contested convention is risky, but it's our best shot right now. It would dominate the news cycle for at least two weeks and create energy and excitement in the base. As long as we come out with someone generally inoffensive, we have a good shot of winning. My pick would be Gavin Newsom; I don't particularly like him, but he's polling on Biden without even campaigning.
It is now very unlikely that Biden will win the election. Acknowledging that isn't the problem, and ignoring it and hoping it goes away isn't the solution. We need to accept it and find a solution.
“It was his stutter.”
“He had a cold.”
“He overprepared and got flustered.”
“A malicious actor used an Inator on him.”
"He was jet lagged"
I wonder what the next excuse is gonna be.
He was stutterlagged while coldmaxxing.
Oh please. Just stop the gaslighting.
Put someone else in there. Someone that will FIGHT like hell for this country and its people against the con menace.
called you got old
even with elite healthcare your mental capacity still declines
no denying that fact or getting around it
People are acting like the job is easy.
But reports are coming out Biden is always like this in the evening...
Which is why we call it Sundowning, and it's a normal part of aging.
He's signing up to be the president though, traveling the globe is part of that, and emergencies might happen after 8pm.
He's just not able to handle it, which is fine. He's 81 and I'm like 99% he'd be out oldest president.
The big problem is his refusal to admit this is happening, again, completely normal. But not acceptable for the leader of America
GTFO joe
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The president's remarks come amid intra-party panic ahead of November's election over his mental fitness, and after a congressman from Texas became the first sitting Democratic lawmaker to call for him to step aside following the debate.
"I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw," Rep Lloyd Doggett said in a statement on Tuesday.Mr Biden appeared to struggle through some responses during a debate with former President Donald Trump last Thursday.
"It’s not an excuse but an explanation,” he said at a private fundraiser in Virginia on Tuesday evening, referring to his travel.He also apologised for his performance and said it was "critical" that he win re-election, according to ABC News.Mr Biden made two separate trips to Europe within two weeks last month.
Incoherent debate performance heightens age fearsPanic and confusion as Democrats weigh Biden's futureOn 15 June, he appeared at a fundraiser alongside former President Barack Obama after an overnight trip from Italy.
His spokesman, Andrew Bates, said the president began "working well before" 11:00, after his exercise routine, during his time at Camp David.His age has been a long-simmering issue this election, with voters in multiple polls saying they think he is too old to be effective.Mr Biden is currently the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for the White House.
"Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, told MSNBC this weekend that the debate created a "difficult situation".He acknowledged that there were "very honest and serious and rigorous conversations taking place at every level of our party.
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