Claudia Aoraha, Dailymail.Com Senior Reporter
14:48 February 11, 2024, updated 15:43 February 11, 2024
- According to the liberal New York Times, Biden’s lack of enthusiasm on the campaign trail and erratic public appearances are a major concern.
- The anxiety of Times editorial board members and opinion writers shows how worried Biden is that he won’t be able to beat the “bad guy” Donald Trump this year.
Joe Biden can’t assure voters he can survive another presidential term, and his team has “no plan” for how to deal with his senile behavior, according to New York Times reporters. Therefore, he simply “should not run for re-election.” .
The trepidation from liberal Times editorial board members and opinion writers shows how worried they are that the ailing Biden won’t be able to defeat the “bad guy” Donald Trump this year.
A flurry of opinion pieces knifed at the 81-year-old president were published over the weekend after a Justice Department report dissected his handling of classified documents and painted him as a forgetful old man. It’s something like that.
A 388-page report by special prosecutor Robert Hur confirmed that he would not be indicted, possibly because a jury could conclude that he was a “well-meaning old man with diminished capacity” and a “poor memory.” He says this is because it will lead to a conclusion.
According to left-wing newspapers, Biden’s lack of enthusiasm on the campaign trail, combined with his aloof public appearances and “grumpy grandpa” demeanor, is a major concern during this “dark period” of his presidency. There is.
“He needs to do more to show the nation that he is fully capable of serving as president until he is 86,” the Times’ board said Sunday.
On February 9, the New York Times editorial board published a damning honest opinion piece titled “The Challenges of an Aging President.”
“This is a dark moment for Mr. Biden’s presidency,” the paper’s team concluded.
They claim that Mr. Biden’s performance at Thursday night’s press conference was “intended to assure the public that his memory is fine and to argue that Mr. Xu is out of line.” However, this was not actually the case.
Instead, according to the opinion article, “the president offers emotional and agile rebuttals at a time when people want stable, even-handed, and competent responses to fair questions about the president’s health.” “This raises further questions about his cognitive acuity and temperament.”
“His assurances…were ineffective,” the commission wrote. He’ll have to try harder — for Mr. Biden, if he wants to survive the campaign with the help of teleprompters and aides and somehow defeat a clearly unqualified opponent like Donald Trump. The stakes in this presidential election are too high. ”
They acknowledged that Trump has “a very real chance of retaking the White House.”
The article suggests that Biden is being kept in the dark by his advisers because of his age, and that instead of campaigning with the people and building confidence, they are doing the exact opposite. are doing.
“The combination of Mr. Biden’s age and absence from public life has undermined public trust,” the letter said. He looks like he’s hiding, or worse, hiding.
“The details in Heo’s report only heighten these concerns, and the Trump campaign is already capitalizing on them.”
This wasn’t the only op-ed published in the New York Times this weekend highlighting Biden’s aging status.
Maureen Dowd, 72, is a longtime journalist and opinion writer for The Times. She published her column on February 10th titled “Mr. Mr. President, please stop hiding your health.
She wrote in the NYT: “We can no longer be stealth about health, and the sooner President Biden’s team stops being in denial about it, the better off Democrats will be.”
Liberal columnists argue that Biden is in bubble wrap and that it won’t work for Democrats to go on the defensive when Trump is on the offensive at a time when “the world is on fire.” insisted.
Dowd claimed that Jill Biden and her advisers tried to come up with ways to “reduce the signs of aging,” but none of them worked.
As a result of his efforts to avoid being seen as a “grumpy grandpa,” he actually shows himself as a full-fledged “grumpy grandpa.”
Dowd said that even though Biden is running against Trump, a “bad guy,” that alone is “not enough” and he needs to “admit to himself that momentary wobble is a major weakness.” He said there is.
A New York Times reporter said, “Many Americans are deeply concerned about the 81-year-old president’s crepuscular symptoms.” That’s the elephant in the room. However, elephants never forget.
“Donald Trump, 77, makes gaffes and shows signs of aging, but he conveys more energy.
“When the president popped out on Thursday night to contradict Special Counsel Robert Hur’s comments and show he was calm, he sulked at the media and accused his staff of mishandling classified documents. criticized.
“Tantrums are never a good look. Biden should have taken a breather.
“Pushing aside the image of a crocheting grandpa, he looked like a crocheting grandpa. “I mean well, I’m an old man, so I know what I’m doing,” he barked. .
Dowd said Biden’s team “has no plan for how to deal with the president’s age other than to cover him up and intimidate reporters who point out that his mental health is the real issue.” It’s clear,” he said.
she warned sternly. “Democrats should grab their stinky salts to vape for a long time.” This year is going to be the most ferocious and violent year. ”
The third scathing opinion piece about Biden published this weekend by the New York Times was written by 44-year-old political analyst Ross Douthat.
The title of his damning article was “It’s not a question of whether Biden should leave.” It’s a “method”.
“Joe Biden should not run for re-election,” Douthat wrote in the Times.
“The impression the president gives in public is one of extreme frailty rather than senility, like a lightbulb that stays on even if you turn it on a dimmer.”
He said if Biden were to resign and appoint Kamala Harris as vice president, “it would make it even more likely that she would lose to Donald Trump.”
But he says: “If he drops out and doesn’t support his No. 2, he will expose himself to a narrative of identitarian betrayal — an old white president’s first woman of color. Knife-Wounding – And Starting His Own Party Months of bloodshed and betrayal followed, a constant swirl of personal and ideological drama.
According to the latest polls, it is very likely that Mr. Biden will become the Democratic nominee. Plunging to just 60% – giving potential candidates a boost michelle obama, gavin newsome And Kamala Harris.
This comes as a new poll shows Americans are deeply skeptical of Biden’s mental ability to serve a second term, as he begins to make his re-election bid in earnest. That’s what I received.
A total of 76% of voters have serious or moderate concerns about the physical and mental health of the 81-year-old Biden to serve a second term, according to a new NBC poll.
A whopping 62% of voters said they had “great concerns” about Biden’s physical and mental health.
The poll reflects the tone of the campaign, with Biden’s aides increasing their campaigning frequency and risking yet another embarrassing moment for the president.
This week, Biden’s staff struggled to explain why the president repeatedly referred to deceased European leaders as if they were still in power.
The poll reflects the tone of the campaign, with Biden’s aides increasing their campaigning frequency and risking yet another embarrassing moment for the president.
This week, Biden’s staff struggled to explain why the president repeatedly referred to deceased European leaders as if they were still in power.
The poll of 1,000 registered voters was conducted between January 26 and 30, before the events Biden recalls were disrupted by meetings with two different world leaders who died before the event.
On Wednesday, Biden recalled a conversation he had with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 2021 during a fundraising event in New York City. Mr. Cole passed away in 2017.
On Sunday, Biden spoke about his 2021 conversation with French President Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996.