What we know about Biden’s strategy to try to hold on until Election Day
By
Mabinty Quarshie
July 2, 2024 5:33 pm
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A defiant President Joe Biden refuses to heed calls from left-leaning pundits, some Democratic lawmakers, and the party’s voter base to consider stepping away from the ticket after a disastrous performance at the first debate against former President Donald Trump last week.
Biden’s inability to quell concerns about his mental acuity during the debate led to Democratic panic over whether the president should remain the party’s standard-bearer ahead of the Democratic National Convention in August.
Tim Ryan, a former Ohio congressman and a 2020 presidential rival to Biden, called for Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s nominee in 2024 this week. James Carville, a chief strategist on former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, said he doesn’t think Biden should be the nominee while several newsroom editorial boards have called for Biden to drop out.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) became the first Democratic member of Congress to call on Biden to withdraw as the nominee. “I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson. Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw. President Biden should do the same,” Doggett said in a statement Tuesday. Adam Frisch, the Colorado Democratic nominee for the 3rd Congressional District, said he was “worried about the state of the presidential race” before calling on Biden to step down.
But the Biden campaign is unequivocal that the president isn’t backing away as the presumptive nominee as he huddled with his family at Camp David over the weekend.
Here are the many ways Biden’s campaign is pushing back against complaints.
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