Democrats’ concern; Did Biden have a cold? / Friedman: I cried
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency Citing Al Jazeera, US President Joe Biden’s poor performance in the first presidential debate for the 2024 election against Donald Trump His Republican rival increased the warnings in the circles of the Democratic Party regarding the elections in the United States and created many uncertainties regarding the results of the elections.
The Trump campaign announced itself as the winner of the election and issued invitations to collect more funds for the election campaign. and it seems that the Republican representative is thinking more and more about returning to the presidency in America.
According to the results of a poll conducted by CNN, 67% of the audience of the debate believe that Trump’s performance was better. and only 33% had an opposing opinion. The New York Times also wrote in a report that only 14% of the participants in this newspaper’s poll believe that Biden performed well, and 84% consider Trump the winner of the recent debate.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris also acknowledged Biden’s poor performance in this debate and on the other hand Americans asked to focus on his successful resume in recent years compared to Trump.
The confusion of Biden’s mind in this debate, which according to this report started at the 12th minute of the debate, and Biden later Staring at the ground for some time, he said meaningless phrases, has caused unprecedented concern among Democrats, who are worried that Biden will not be able to continue the election campaign. Claire McCaskill, a former Democratic senator from the state of Missouri, says that Biden should assure Americans that despite his age, he deserves to hold this position.
Al Jazeera adds that although before this Biden’s physical capabilities were doubted by Republican circles, this is the first It is time that the Democrats also express concern in this regard. “Claire McCaskill” is not the only person who commented in this field, but “David Axelrod”, the former adviser of Barack Obama, and “James Carfil”, the former adviser of Bill Clinton, have also raised concerns in this field.
Democrats, of course, have tried to justify this extreme weakness and have claimed that Biden has a cold, but New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof expressed hope that Biden will review his performance in the debate and withdraw from the competition and allow another Democratic candidate to be chosen.
Even Thomas Friedman, one of the closest people to Biden, said that the debate He cried. In this regard, he emphasized: Joe Biden is the president and a good man, but he does not deserve to be re-elected and should withdraw from the competition.
An unnamed White House official stated in an interview with Politico that the situation It’s sad, but his anger and anger is that some smart people are trying to make him successful in this debate by lying, and they still support Biden’s candidacy.
Democrats after the debate discussed ways to change their representative in this election and options including Gretchen Whitmire The governor of the state of Michigan or “Andy Beshear”, the governor of the state of Kentucky, and “Roy Cooper”, the governor of the state of North Carolina. Of course, the most important option among them is Javin Newsom, the governor of California. At the same time, many analysts do not consider Kamala Harris, his deputy, worthy of participating in the election contests due to the lack of popular popularity.
