Posted on 07/05/2024 7:21:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A defiant President Joe Biden on Friday downplayed his poor performance in last week’s debate in what had become a high-stakes interview on ABC, as questions swirled over the future of his candidacy.
Here are six takeaways from Biden’s interview with ABC News.
1. Biden says debate was a ‘bad night,’ not a bigger problem.
2. The president takes ownership of poor performance, but offers a new excuse.
3. Biden won’t take a cognitive test and release it to voters.
4. Biden denies polls show him losing to Trump.
5. Biden brushes off nervous Dems: Only the ‘Lord Almighty’ could get him to leave the race.
6. Biden gets fired up and shows off his energy at Wisconsin rally.
Biden’s speech during that rally was animated and energetic – though he seemed to realize that each of his words would be parsed and carefully scrutinized in this politically crucial period. He vowed to “beat Trump again in 2020” before quickly realizing his mistake and correcting himself: “By the way, we’re gonna do it again in 2024.” Slamming Trump’s economic policy, Biden said his opponent “wants another 5 billion - trillion, trillion, not billion - $5 trillion tax cut.”
He directly addressed criticisms about his age: “I wasn’t too old to create over 50 million new jobs, to make sure 21 million Americans are insured under the Affordable Care Act, to beat Big Pharma. … Was I too old to relieve student debt for nearly 5 million Americans?”
Biden said unnamed forces are “trying to push him out of the race.”
“Well, let me say this as quick as I can,” he added. “I’m staying in the race.”
That point was punctuated by the song that played as Biden’s speech concluded: Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.”
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I noticed also that Stephy studdered when asking questions during the interview. Probably intended to help normalized Biden’s dementia-affected speech patterns.
See Joe run stumble and fall.
See Joe deliver victory to the demoncrats a landslide for Donald Trump.
7) - Joe cannot remember if he watched his debate with Trump.
The split screen showed otherwise.
. Besides, I thought Biden said he was falling asleep, he was just staring, he was unfocused.
How is he now saying Trump was shouting at him when we all saw him standing silent while Biden was talking?
It was only when Biden started bragging about his golf game and challenged Trump to carry his own bag that Trump spoke back out of turn. By that time, the debate was lost for Biden.
-PJ
I caught that, too.
I think he said, “I don’t think I did”.
How can you not remember whether you did or not?
Oh, sorry; it’s Joe...
I'd guess the "Deep State" will take Biden OUT long before the Good Lord even thinks about it!
A Biden NEVER quits!
Fight to the bitter end Joe!
Real grifters never give up the con, even as it falls in flames they just can’t let go of it.
Joe and his rats will hold on long past the time of a graceful exit. A time when some semblance of honor could be preserved but NO it’s too
Late baby!!!
I think the good Lord can, and just might arrange #5.
If Bribey was in his right mind, he himself, would hate his own terrible record.
I sort of doubt that. I think the party is going to ditch him. Maybe they’ll give him the chance to look like he’s ‘gracefully’ bowing out; but they’re going to ditch him.
ANYTHING!
Joe is spoon fed everything from day one and now he fails to remember when or what to say to this interview clean up!
Ha!
So messed up we have such crooks in control!
+101
Thanks for the post!
First thing I thought.
“6. Biden gets fired up and shows off his energy at Wisconsin rally.”
coke and a teleprompter
Biden said unnamed forces are “trying to push him out of the race.”
“Well, let me say this as quick as I can,” he added. “I’m staying in the race.”
set up for a fake medical emergency right now or in the very near future
Even my Trump hating in-laws thought Biden did and looked horrible. Of course the MIL had tons of sympathy for Joetato, but both thought he is past expiration.
We should know by Monday what the Deep State has instructed Georgie to do.
There were a few cuts in the interview. I gave that to timing issues, but I did see two edits and wondered what the purpose was for. Any edits shows to me they are trying to hide something.
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