Posted on 07/05/2024 5:02:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Joe Biden gave his first post-debate television interview to reassure Americans he could handle another four years in office-- but it turns out, it wasn't just one "bad night."
After a shaky debate performance against former President Donald Trump last week, Biden has faced an avalanche of pressure to drop out of the 2024 race, citing his cognitive decline.
Biden, who says he's staying in the race, has defied calls to drop out of the running, confident he will beat Trump.
The 81-year-old president agreed to a sit-down interview with CBS News’ George Stephanopoulos because he said he would not let a 90-minute debate overshadow all of his so-called “accomplishments” from the past three years.
Stephanopoulos asked Biden if his disastrous debate performance was a "bad episode or the sign of a more serious condition?”
Biden’s excuse? He was “exhausted.”
However, the host pushed back, pointing out that Biden had spent the entire week prior vacationing at Camp David.
“I just had a really bad cold!” The president claimed.
ABC: Was your humiliating debate a "bad episode or the sign of a more serious condition"?
BIDEN: "I was exhausted!"
ABC: Why wasn't your week holed away at Camp David enough rest time?
BIDEN: "I just had a really bad cold!" pic.twitter.com/AHMBLqNcIK— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 5, 2024
It is worth noting that Biden has spent more than 40 percent of his presidency on vacation and his days are similar to someone who works a cushiony 9-5.
Biden also blamed his troubling debate performance on jet lag. However, Stephanopoulos pointed out that he had over a week— 12 days to be exact— to recover.
George Stephanopoulos asks Joe Biden if he thinks he has a “serious condition” and why 12 days wasn’t enough time to recover from jet lag pic.twitter.com/kEfN8dKHKt— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 5, 2024
The senile president also has no clue whether he watched the debate.
Joe Biden does not know if he watched the debate after taking part in it
pic.twitter.com/hgzYsYs1Cg— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 5, 2024
On Friday, during a rally in Wisconsin, Biden pushed back against critics who say it’s time for him to pass the torch. Instead, the president declared he would “win again in 2020” as he bashed former President Donald Trump.
“What’s Joe going to do? Is he going to stay in the race? Is he going to drop out? What are you going to do?” Biden told the crowd. “Well, here’s my answer: I am running and I’m going to win again.”
Watching a station I never watch Young Turks, mostly because they are live and all my usual news stations are playing recorded shows. Young Turks, very left, but they are all in on replacing Biden, all in.
What’s with the holding a pen in his right hand?
He did thid during the debate too.
I have seen Michael J. Fox do the same thing.
Correction, Young Turks was running a live feed until 8pm eastern and they did have a couple of the Stephy/Biden clips and discussed and they were still all in for Biden to step down. The program on now was from yesterday, and very much calling for Biden to be replaced.
I call them the Old Turks.
Time catches up with everyone.
;-)
He might be trying to control tremors in his right hand resulting from Parkinson's. In his last years, Hitler kept his left hand in a pocket or behind him to hide the tremors.
If the left hadn’t been so gullible they wouldn’t be in this position right now.
“That’s okay. The powers that be have a plan.”
Okay, but this is her last chance. No more release the Kraken type stuff. So what is happening on Air Force One 🙄
Edited all the way to Kingdom come!
I.missed it. Oh, well, I will read comments. Can’t the Senate and Congress demand he take a cognitive test?
The Rats need to invoke the 25th Amendment to get rid of Demenia Joe. We all knew he wasn’t mentally comepetent in 2020. Yet, the Rats decided to tempt fate. Time exposes all lies.
I believe the pen holding is a technique to control motor skills.
Biden will simply not admit that he's a lame duck...a real "lame" duck.
What's this....he kept the UN together cr**. He forgot to mention Afghanistan...inflation...Baby Formula shortages...that he gave bazillions of our money to get a chip factory here.
Quote....."The whole way I prepared -- nobody's fault but mine, nobody's fault but mine. I -- I prepared -- what I usually would do, sitting down as I did come back with foreign leaders or national security council for explicit detail. And I realized about partway through that, you know, all the -- quoted, 'The New York Times; had me down 10 points before the debate, 9,000 or whatever the hell it is. ....The fact of the matter is what I looked at is that he also lied 28 times. I couldn't -- I mean, the way the debate ran, not my fault, nobody else's fault, no one else's fault."
His breathing was very irregular...
It MUST be.... this man should not be President NOW... much less, for another 4 years.
It’s his binky....
President 10 to 4. (If he’s not taking an afternoon nap).
You left out the biggest whopper of all when he said he was the one who stopped Putin.
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