While some are calling on the American president to withdraw from the campaign for next November’s election, those close to Joe Biden, 81, are more mobilized than ever.
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A photo of Joe Biden alone on a red background leaving the frame and a word: “Panic”. The front page of the magazine Time sums up the state of mind of part of the Democratic camp since the debate between the American president and the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, on Thursday June 27.
Joe Biden has been a shadow of his former self and some are asking him to give up running so he can be replaced. But the Biden clan is resisting.
No question of giving up. That’s what the people who matter most to him: his wife Jill and his son Hunter, are telling Joe Biden. The Democratic candidate has just spent a long weekend at Camp David, the second home of American presidents.
And the family line has not budged: while the clan is aware of last week’s poor debate, the outgoing president remains best placed to beat Trump, as he did in 2020, assures the 81-year-old president’s entourage. Jill and Hunter, whom Joe Biden has long sought advice from, keep telling him that he should not give up because he is weakened, that he can recover from his mediocre performance…
The goal is therefore simple for the man who has dreamed of the White House since he was 25: stay in the race… even if it means changing some of his advisers, as suggested by those close to the president, who are unhappy with the preparation for the debate, which incidentally minimizes the impact of these 90 minutes on television facing Donald Trump. Moreover, the family reunion at Camp David was officially nothing like a war council: it was a long-planned photo shoot with American photographer Annie Leibovitz, who came to immortalize the Biden clan, before the Democratic convention in August.
