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ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos admitted Tuesday that he does not believe President Biden can serve out a second term — days after conducting a closely watched interview with the commander-in-chief following his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump last month. Stephanopoulos, 63, was recorded by TMZ answering a question from a passer-by in midtown Manhattan about Biden’s political future. “Do you think Biden should step down?” the anonymous interrogator asked the “Good Morning America” co-host and “This Week” moderator. “You’ve talked to him more than anybody else has lately.”

<p>The interview was seen as the president’s make-or-break moment to try and reassure voters and leaders within the party that the lackluster performance on stage — when Biden appeared to lack energy, had a raspy voice and stumbled over his words — was a one-time thing.</p>

Joe Biden sat down with Democrat operative George Stephanopoulos for an interview on ABC News on Friday. The interview with a total dumpster fire.Stephanopoulos repeatedly asked Biden about his cognitive decline.“Are you the same man today that you were when you took office three-and-a-half years ago?” Stephanopoulos asked. “Do you dispute that there have been more lapses, especially in the last several months?” Stephanopoulos asked.“Can I run the 100 in 10 flat? No. But I’m still in good shape,” Biden said.Stephanopoulos pressed Biden, “Are you more frail?”“No,” Biden said.Stephanopoulos also pointed to several polls showing Trump is beating Joe Biden...

Instead of reassuring Democrats, Biden's ABC News interview may have accelerated the revolt against his nomination. President Joe Biden’s make-or-break interview with ABC News on Friday night did little to convince alarmed Democrats that he is capable of winning the election and serving another four years in the White House. But among the more jarring moments in the interview was when Biden framed his insistence on running in this critically important election — and his potential defeat — as a personal endeavor. “And if you stay in and Trump is elected, and everything you’re warning about comes to pass, how...

A top advisor to former President Obama offered a dismal assessment of President Biden’s make or break interview on ABC. David Axelrod, the architect of Obama’s two successful presidential campaigns, called the Friday sitdown “sad” to watch. “When George Stephanopoulos asked him if he’d be willing to take a cognitive test, he said, ‘I take a cognitive test every day.’ Well, the fact is, that may be true, but 75% of the American people think he fails,” Axelrod said in post-interview analysis on CNN Friday. While Biden again rejected calls to leave the race, saying only the “Lord Almighty” could...

President Joe Biden, on Saturday, lost the support of yet another Democrat member of Congress, the first to do so in the aftermath of Biden’s too-little-too-late Friday ABC News interview, which failed to assuage his critics. Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) officially asked Biden to step aside early Saturday morning, saying, “As an elected leader, I feel a responsibility to be honest about what I believe, even when it’s hard to hear.” Craig is the fifth member of Congress to demand Biden step aside since his disastrous June 27 debate. The battleground district lawmaker hails from Minnesota, a state unexpectedly in...

<p>Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig became the fifth sitting House Democrat to urge Biden to call it quits.</p><p>Meanwhile, David Axelrod, the architect of Obama’s two successful presidential campaigns, was far more blunt. He called the Friday sit-down “sad” to watch.</p>

First Lady Jill Biden’s ex-husband said he is getting “even more worried” about the state of the country after watching President Joe Biden’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I wish he would have the cognitive test,” Bill Stevenson, who was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975, told The Post Saturday. “George asked him about three or four times. It’s what the whole world is thinking about. I feel badly that this guy is someone who now can’t make a decision in the middle of the night.” “Watching…it was clear Joe Biden has deeper issues,” Stevenson added. “He was...

President Biden rejected concerns about his fumbling performance in the first presidential debate last month in a prime-time interview on Friday. In the interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, Mr. Biden downplayed and misstated polls showing him falling farther behind former President Donald J. Trump since the debate, exaggerated Mr. Trump’s proposals and made hyperbolic statements about his own record and recent events. Here’s a fact check.

... “Look, I have a cognitive test every single day,” Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, referring to the tasks he faces daily in a rigorous job. “Every day, I have that test. Everything I do. You know, not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.” ...

First lady Jill Biden is unleashing fury at those who are trying to force President Joe Biden to quit his re-election campaign following his disastrous debate performance last week against former President Donald Trump. ABC News host Martha Raddatz said following Biden’s interview with the network on Friday that sources inside the White House have told her that Biden’s “very tight inner circle” is pushing Biden to stay in the race and that he will win as long as he keeps going. “This of course includes his wife Jill who they said is lashing out at those who want him...

Insiders have revealed the shocking comments Democrats made behind the scenes of his 'sad' 22-minute interview. The president sat down with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Friday as part of a damage control strategy following his disastrous debate against Donald Trump last month. But his muted performance once again failed to convince even those in his own party that he has the mental fortitude required for four more years.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is advocating a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear that peace talks can only happen after Ukraine essentially surrenders. "If we sit in Brussels, we won’t be able to get any closer to peace. Action must be taken," Orban said during a regular interview on Hungarian state radio following his visit. Orban turned heads this week when he made back-to-back trips to Kyiv and Moscow just days before a major NATO summit in Washington, D.C., next week.

VIDEOGeneral Mark Milley emphatically told Norah O'Donnell on 60 Minutes last year that it was not his place as a general to comment on Joe Biden's mental and physical health but in the next breath went full gaslighter by giving a glowing review of Biden's mental health. Included in this video is a stunning moment during Biden's interview with George Stephanopoulos that most people overlooked but reflects back on Milley the Gaslighter.

During an interview with ABC News on Friday, President Joe Biden said that he realized he was doing poorly in last week’s presidential debate when he noticed that “even when I was answering a question, even though they turned his mic off,” his opponent, 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, “was still shouting. And I let it distract me.” Biden elaborated that he isn’t blaming that for his performance, but that caused him to realize “that I just wasn’t in control.” ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked, “And how quickly did it come to you that you were having...

I'm not sure why the Biden team keeps making the same mistake over and over again, seemingly thinking if they just get Joe out there more, they can convince people he's competent. That's a horrible strategy, as he only continues to make things worse. For example, with his ABC interview on Friday night, he needed to allay any fears, or why do it? Yet once again, he only dug the hole deeper, and it only made things worse. So, again, why do it?

Joe Biden just stuck up his middle finger and told Americans everywhere: Screw you. In a taped interview that lasted only 22 minutes, the President insisted his dire poll numbers weren't real — 'fake news', if you will — that the Democratic party has no concerns about his fitness to lead, and that the only way he would exit the race is 'if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me'. What — Barack Obama isn't close enough? If Americans had a shred of sympathy for Biden after last week's CNN debate — if they felt that perhaps he didn't...

Joe Biden did his much talked about interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News tonight and it was a worst-case scenario for Democrats.

Pollster Nate Silver, the founder of ABC’s FiveThirtyEight, called for President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 White House race after making “incoherent comments” in his first postdebate interview Friday.

resident Joe Biden gave ABC News' George Stephanopoulos a 107-word stream of gibberish when asked to explain his car crash of a debate performance against former President Donald Trump. 'Yeah, look,' Biden said, pausing. 'The whole way I prepared, nobody's fault, mine. Nobody's fault but mine.' 'I - I prepared what I usually would do sittin' down as I did come back with foreign leaders or National Security Council for explicit detail. And I realized - partway through that, you know, all - I get quoted the New York Times had me down, ten points before the debate, nine now,...