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US presidential election: Biden tries to reassure people about his fitness
Joe Biden Interview on ABC
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Expected to deliver in an interview with ABC, the Democratic president defended his mental acuity and his ability to govern the country for a second term on Friday.
He tried to reassure, without necessarily convincing. “No one is more qualified than me to be president or win this election.”proclaimed Joe Biden, Democratic candidate for the US presidential election in November, on Friday, July 5, in a highly anticipated interview on ABC. Questioned insistently on his disastrous debate against Donald Trump on June 27, the outgoing president repeated several times that it was only a “bad evening”attributable to a cold accompanied by great fatigue.
For 22 minutes, Joe Biden stubbornly and sometimes laboriously defended his candidacy for a second term, while some elected officials from his own camp called on him to step down. Attacked on his mental capacities by his Republican rival, Joe Biden considered that his position was equivalent to “Take a cognitive test every day.” “Not only am I campaigning, I’m running the world”the 81-year-old Democrat said. While he spoke more fluently than during his failed televised duel, he spoke in a hushed voice and had incomplete or somewhat disjointed sentences.
“If the Lord Almighty came down and said, ‘Joe, get out of the race,’ I would get out of the race, but he’s not going to come down.”
Joe Biden, American President
in an interview with ABC
Joe Biden said no “not believe” to polls that give Donald Trump the advantage nationally and in key states, saying that, in his view, he was “neck and neck” with the former president. When the journalist told him that he had never seen a president get re-elected with a 36% approval rating, he had this response: “I don’t think that’s my trust rating.”.
