The newspaper The New York Times this Friday (06/28/2024) in an editorial asked the US president, Joe Biden, to abandon the electoral race to remain in the White House after the Democrat carried out a highly questioned performance in the debate on Thursday, June 27 against Donald Trump.
“To serve his country, President Biden should drop out of the race,” is the title of the editorial in the prestigious newspaper, in which it states that “the greatest public service Mr. Biden can provide now is to announce that he will no longer run for re-election.”
Biden’s performance in the face-to-face meeting with the Republican politician left the image of a candidate weakened by the age factor and in which he hesitated on several occasions, uttered disconnected phrases and introduced inaccurate data.
“It is too big a gamble to simply expect Americans to overlook or dismiss Mr. Biden’s age and weakness,” the headline stresses, making clear that their plea to the Democratic candidate is not a compliment to Trump, but quite the opposite; they consider him a common enemy.
In fact, The New York Times called Biden “an admirable president” under whom the US “has prospered and begun to address a number of long-term challenges.”
The Times agrees with this that the return of Donald Trump (2017-2021) to the Oval Office would entail a “danger” that would compromise “the future of American democracy” and could carry out “his most extreme promises and threats.”
Biden is “not the man he was four years ago”
However, according to the New York newspaper, Biden “is no longer the man he was four years ago” and, during the debate, he failed in his attempt to “convince the American public that he was up to the formidable demands.”
And they recalled that this performance cannot be described as a “bad night” or attributed to a “cold”, even when “it was Biden himself who challenged Trump to this verbal duel”, so he should be replaced.
“Calling for a new Democratic candidate at this stage of the campaign is a decision not taken lightly, but it reflects the magnitude and gravity of Trump’s challenge (…) Biden’s inability to meet it,” says the editorial of the media outlet chaired by Meredith Kopit Levien.
For the aforementioned media, in the Democratic ranks there are leaders who best embody “a clear, convincing and energetic alternative” to a second Trump presidency, although they did not venture to name names: “There is no reason for the party to risk stability and the security of the country”.
The newspaper also repeatedly attacked Trump in its editorial, calling him “an erratic, self-serving figure unworthy of public trust,” a “malignant deformity,” and a “candidate defined by his lies.”
“It is a tragedy that Republicans themselves did not do more soul-searching after the debate (…) He lied blatantly and repeatedly about his own actions, his record as president and his opponent,” argued The New York Times.
mg (efe, afp, the new york times)
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