US President Joe Biden confirmed on Friday his intention to continue running in the presidential race despite his poor performance in the debate he had on Thursday against his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump.
“I don’t walk as easily as I used to, I don’t speak as fluently as I used to, I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know how to tell the truth,” Biden told a rally of his supporters in North Carolina.
“I know right from wrong. I know how to do the job. I know how to get things done. I know, as millions of Americans know, that when you fall, you get back up again,” he added.
The American media reported a real “panic” caused by the debate among the Democrats, four months before the elections and about six weeks before the conference in which the American president is supposed to be appointed the party’s official candidate.
But at the present time, no prominent figure in the Democratic Party has expressed this feeling publicly.
On Friday in North Carolina, Biden appeared to be saying the words his supporters wanted him to say during the debate, but he couldn’t.
“Did you see Trump last night? I think he set a new record for most lies in a single debate,” he continued.
He also said, “I would not have run again if I did not believe with all my heart that I was capable of doing this job.”
Biden stressed, “Donald Trump is the greatest threat to this nation. He is a threat to our freedom. He is a threat to our democracy. He is literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
To show how bad the situation was following the debate, a scathing article by Thomas Friedman, who presents himself as a “friend” of the US President, published Friday in the New York Times, is sufficient.
The journalist wrote that Joe Biden is “a good man, a good president, but he is not in a position to run for a second term,” revealing that he “cried” when he saw the 81-year-old Democratic president, who appeared exhausted at times and stuttered during a 90-minute debate in front of the cameras. CNN American news network.
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For his part, former Democratic President Barack Obama wrote on “And someone who lies for his own benefit.”
“Last night didn’t change that, so there’s a lot at stake in November,” Obama added.
Analysts believe that choosing the Democrats as an alternative to Biden will entail several political risks, and Biden will have to decide himself to withdraw to make room for another candidate before the party conference.
The most prominent candidate to replace him is his deputy, Kamala Harris, who wholeheartedly defended his performance on Thursday while admitting that his start was “difficult.”
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Biden “is not capable of being president, and we don’t enjoy saying that because it’s very dangerous.”
If Biden decides to withdraw, the Democrats will meet in August in Chicago in what is known as the “open” convention, where the cards will be reshuffled, especially the votes of the delegates who actually voted for the president.
This scenario would be unprecedented since 1968, when the party had to find a replacement for President Lyndon Johnson after the latter withdrew his candidacy in the midst of the Vietnam War.
Vice President Hubert Humphrey was nominated at the time, and he lost the election to Republican Richard Nixon.
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