Posted on 07/05/2024 7:54:50 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will sit Friday for his first televised interview since his disastrous debate performance last week, one that could be crucial in determining whether he can salvage his embattled candidacy.
The interview with anchor George Stephanopoulos of ABC News is shaping up to be one of the most high-stakes moments for a president or a candidate in many years. Democratic elected officials, donors and voters will be closely watching to see whether he can still deliver in an adversarial setting and turn in a performance worthy of being the party’s nominee to defeat Donald Trump this fall.
The interview will “air in its entirety as a primetime special” at 8 p.m. ET Friday, ABC said, adding that a “transcript of the unedited interview will be made available the same day.”
The White House said it has “some flexibility” around the length of the sit-down but “no exact estimate” of the duration of the conversation.
Earlier in the day, Biden is expected to speak at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin. The White House said the interview team from ABC “will be with us all day in Wisconsin” and able to cover the rally event and to observe the president as he participates in his schedule.
The big questions on many Democrats’ minds are: Were the frailty and incoherence he exhibited at the debate anomalies, or have they become common occurrences for Biden? Can he still mount a vigorous campaign with a reasonable chance of defeating Trump? And if not, would Democrats be better off if Biden stepped aside for a replacement candidate — most likely Vice President Kamala Harris — to be nominated at next month’s convention?
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“transcript of the unedited interview will be made available the same day.”
No reasonable person should believe that it will be unedited.
I’m a cord cutter so I don’t get any of the ‘big 3’ networks as I won’t pay them for subscriptions. I could grab it from Sacramento by antenna. I’ll be watching clips on Twitter. I wonder if any of the streaming sites will be carrying it?
Bwa-hahahahahaaaaaa! 😂
If he wanted to scare the hell out of his supporters, he’d offer to do something live…
For the left, a “mentally disabled, scumbag” that the puppet masters can completely control is less of a risk than cackling Kamala. Having her as Joe’s vice president is Karma. She cannot be hidden during the campaign like he was/is. I think she is the worst possible candidate, but they cannot figure out a way to pass her over
The Biden campaign showed no signs of slowing down, although the Trump team has overtaken it on fundraising.
The campaign announced it would spend $50 million on a media blitz for the month of July, “including strategic investments around key events that draw in large and politically diverse audiences like the 2024 Olympic Games and the Republican National Convention.”
NBC plus AOL commie news. What’s not to like?
No doubt, they tried to ease her out early and elevate butthead but that she shut that down but good.
The word has gone out from king-maker Jim Clyburn(D-SC)- Kamala will not be passed over... that would be both misogynist and racist... a ‘twofer’ in the woke hierarchy of evil.
To be fair, AOL is just acting as a news aggregator here...
“ People can see jump cuts... it’s the perspective cuts (interviewer to subject and back) where edits can actually be hidden.”
Perhaps ABC can borrow a few of CBS 60 minutes producers. CBS is the champion of this kind of deceitful hiding of cuts. I have read that sometimes they even insert questions that were never asked during the interview.
"Adversarial setting". The setting is with Stephan... and won't be live. That's hardly adversarial.
> The Biden campaign showed no signs of slowing down… <
True that. I am amazed at the number of Biden ads that have suddenly appeared on my local TV stations. There were none until recently. Now there’re all over the place.
These aren’t generic Democrat ads. They are Biden ads, specifically.
I don’t know how well those Olympics are going to go... Left and Islamists might try to burn the country down after next weekend’s voting.
Unless Trump gets equal time, we view this as an illegal unequal 1934 FCC violation.
He should be put before a “type of NY court” campaign violation examination, as they persecuted Trump.
They lie like biden. The fact that they said it tells you they did.
Absolutely
I’m not so sure. This could go either way.
If the king makers have decided to go another direction, this could be the final setup to demolish him.
I think the media knows that they can’t prop him up, it’s beyond that. They’ll just lose all credibility, of the shred that remains, if they even try, it’ll be embarrassing.
That said, this is the mainstream media we’re talking about - they’re so arrogant in their belief they’re intellectually superior to everyone else they might still try to gaslight everyone that he’s ok.
Could go either way imo.
There is nothing remotely fair about AOL. They are the worst of the worst. I still have my email with them, because it’s still the best out there for file sharing. But I have to fight my way past their news page which makes me want to wretch.
When Biden won, they had dancing cha cha style figures of Biden and Kamala dance towards me when I signed on.
Even then, how would we be sure it’s live.
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