New York Times Call On Joe Biden To "Leave The Race" To Serve His Country (image@JoeBiden)
The New York Times, one of the established news outlets of US has called on Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential election after seeing how the first debate between Biden and his rival Donald Trump. On its editorial page, New York Times wrote an article titled as, “To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race”.
The Democrat leader’s poor performance has made the party members into panic mode. Biden appeared shaky and appeared struggling to finish sentences.
Shortly after the debate, senior Democratic leaders, including Vice President Kamala Harris acknowledged Biden’s “slow start” but emphasised his “strong finish”, while others privately suggested he should step aside.
New York Times’ opinion piece said that, “the greatest public service [Biden] can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election”.
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“The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant,” it said. “He struggled to explain what he would accomplish in a second term. He struggled to respond to (Trump’s) provocations. He struggled to hold (Trump) accountable for his lies, his failures and his chilling plans. More than once, he struggled to make it to the end of a sentence… Biden is not the man he was four years ago”, it said.
The outlet’s columnist Thomas L Friedman earlier called on his “friend” to step aside. “Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no business running for re-election,” he said.
Barack Obama, the former US President came forward defending Biden. In his social media post, he said, “Bad debate nights happen. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself”.
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Joe Biden appeared more coherent when he addressed a rally in North Carolina. He said “I know I’m not a young man. I don’t walk as easily as I used to. I don’t talk as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to. Well, I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done. I know, like millions of Americans, when you get knocked down, you get back up”.
Apart from New York Times, Time magazine also called out Biden for his fumbles. In its new cover photo, the magazine featured Biden walking away and disappearing off the edge of the Time Magazine cover. The magazine captioned it with the word “panic”. The meaning behind the usage of the world ‘panic’ was reportedly attributed to what the US political commentators had described the mood inside the Democratic Party after Biden’s debate.
