EXCLUSIVE: “Why isn’t Joe Biden on 60 Minutes tonight? Why wasn’t he on Meet the Press this morning?”
29.06.2024 - 01:41 / deadline.com
“Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago,” the New York Times said today in the understatement of the moment as it a called for the incumbent to bow out of this year’s race against Donald Trump before it’s too late.
“The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant,” the paper’s Editorial Board wrote late Friday in a piece headlined “To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race.”
“(T)he greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election.”
Read the full NYT Editorial Board piece calling for Joe Biden to exit the race below
The unprecedented insistence by the Grey Lady comes after nearly 24 hours of hand wringing and calls for an intervention as the weak voiced 81-year-old Biden stumbled and croaked through his primetime showdown with Trump on CNN.
“It’s too big a bet to simply hope Americans will overlook or discount Mr. Biden’s age and infirmity that they see with their own eyes,” the Editorial Board piece noted bluntly.
Earlier Friday, NYT columnists Thomas L. Friedman and Paul Krugman both pleaded with Biden to drop out.
Still, amidst simultaneous “don’t panic” and “panic” missives from Democratic operatives and suggestions of how Biden could release his delegates at August’s convention to put a successor in place, the urgings of the NYT met with a pretty quick dismissal by the Biden team.
“The last time Joe Biden lost the New York Times editorial board’s endorsement it turned out pretty well for him,” a Biden/Harris campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond told Deadline. As cable news outlets like CNN and MSNBC picked up the Editorial Board piece, Biden surrogates were out in force.
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EXCLUSIVE: “Why isn’t Joe Biden on 60 Minutes tonight? Why wasn’t he on Meet the Press this morning?”
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allow former service members convicted under Article 125 to request and receive proof that their conviction has been erased, petition to have their “other than honorable” discharges upgraded, and seek to recover lost pay or benefits.“Today, I am righting an historic wrong by using my clemency authority to pardon many former service members who were convicted simply for being themselves,” Biden said in a statement released on Wednesday, June 25. “Despite their courage and great sacrifice, thousands of LGBTQI+ service members were forced out of the military because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.“We have a sacred obligation to all of our service members — including our brave LGBTQI+ service members: to properly prepare and equip them when they are sent into harm’s way, and to care for them and their families when they return home.
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