At the same time, Joe Biden assured that he would be able to do the job of head of the White House.
US President Joe Biden said, that he intends to defeat Republican rival Donald Trump in November's presidential election, giving no indication that he plans to drop out of the race after a weak debate performance that spooked his fellow Democrats.
Reuters writes about this.
I know that I am no longer young. I know I don't walk as easily as I used to, don't speak as coherently as I used to, don't debate as well as I used to, but I know what I know. “I know how to tell the truth,” Biden said.
“I wouldn't run again if I didn't believe with all my heart and soul that I could do the job. The stakes are too high,” added the current US President.
Biden's verbal stumbles and at times meandering responses during debates with Trump have fueled voter concerns that he may be unfit to serve another four-year term and prompted some of his fellow Democrats to wonder whether they can replace him as their own. candidate in the November election.
Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said there was no talk of such a possibility.
“We'd rather have one bad night than a candidate with a bad vision of where he wants to take the country,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One.
The campaign held a meeting Friday afternoon to reassure staffers that Joe Biden was not dropping out of the race, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
Several top officials, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, have said they are sticking with Biden.
“There are bad debate nights. Trust me, I know. But this election is a choice between someone who has spent their entire lives fighting for everyday people and those who care only about themselves,” the former president wrote -Democrat Barack Obama on social network X.
The New York Times editorial board, which supported Biden in 2020, called on him to drop out of the race to give the Democratic Party a better chance of defeating Trump by choosing a different candidate.
“The greatest public service Mr. Biden can perform now is to announce that he will not run for re-election,” the editorial said.
If Joe Biden were to resign, the party would have less than two months to choose another candidate at the national convention, which begins August 19.
Recall that the diplomat made a bold assumption about the disastrous Biden vs. Trump debate.
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