Biden’s latest attempt to convince everyone he has what it takes to stay in the race will air at 6:30 PM Eastern / 3:30 PM Pacific.
More on where and how to watch here:
https://apnews.com/article/how-to-watch-biden-press-conference-a70590e7574fc9680229b6b6289f6a02
My expectation is that it will be on all the usual sources. CNN, MSNBC, etc. etc. with in depth coverage on the talking head shows later tonight.
Edit Conference is running 20+ 50+ minutes late after already being pushed back 1 hour from 5:30 to 6:30.
Not sure if that’s good news or bad news.
Here we go! 58 minutes late, but he’s on a roll talking about NATO.
Oh, snap! Reminding everyone that Article 5 has only been used once… 9/11.
Speech ran less than 10 minutes, but was a strong speech, now the questions.
Fumbles on the first answer, calling out “Vice President Trump”. :(
Ended after almost an hour with one final question on “Vice President Trump” - Biden’s answer “Listen to him.” End conference.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with how it went!
Lol
“I’ve been to 20 events since the debate. What’s trump doing? Riding around in his golf cart. Filling out a scorecard before he hits the ball.”
ALSO: wit is a good sign of stable, sharp minds. It was a good comment for him to make.
Honestly that line was probably written by a speech writer beforehand, but it shows he can remember it and deliver it with good timing. It was pretty good.
Vice president Trump. Lol
Like three times, and then said he’d beat Trump a second later…
I don’t think he realized.
He didn’t.
And that will be used against him too. Not only did he make the gaffe, he didn’t even realize he made the gaffe.
(And for the record, it’s sad that voters are holding Biden to a much higher standard than Trump. But here we are.)
Dude.
It’s sad that this is the standard we’re holding Biden too…
You know what a momma cat does when it can’t feed all the kittens? It carries the runt off and abandons it
The Republican party is the runt, we can’t save both and the Dem party has the best chance of surviving.
Why waste valuable time and effort calling on trump to step down? He’s literally never going to do it and there’s zero chance republicans go against him
(And for the record, it’s sad that voters are holding Biden to a much higher standard than Trump. But here we are.)
Except that’s been the whole point of this exercise from day one!
The voters on the right have proven that they have NO standards that a candidate needs to live up to, while the voters on the left are the ones who are screaming “we need to have high standards for the people who are going to run the country”
Until recently, while the left would have preferred an even better candidate, Biden at least just barely fell above the seemingly minimum bar, especially when compared against Trump. But now Biden seems to have fallen right to the cusp of where the voters who still have standards are wondering if he’s fallen below them, and if there’s might be a better option, both from the standpoint of meeting their standards, and the standpoint of actually being able to win against Trump, who MUST lose for our nation to avoid disaster.
(And for the record, it’s sad that voters are holding Biden to a much higher standard than Trump. But here we are.)
Trump already fails even lower standards. In fact, I can’t think of any serious standard that Trump doesn’t fail.
“don’t be a jackass” Fail.
“don’t be a fascist.” double fail.
“Be human.” Tripple fail.
“don’t be a rapist”. fail-tacular.
“Don’t be a child rapist”… Failing-spree.
In any case, I think a lot of people are afraid of trump winning- and with very good cause, so Biden has a lot of scrutiny. “I beat him before” doesn’t really hold water. he squeaked that under the wire in four states, any 3 of which flipping would have given it to trump. (PA, AZ, GA, CO,) and plenty of others were pretty damn close, too. Trump has had 4 years to improve his image and energize his base. Biden is less popular than he was in 2020. Anyone whose not worried is gonna have a rude awakening, I think.
If you have no intention of ever supporting Trump, it doesn’t matter what he does. It would be nice if the not Trump option wasn’t so similar in age and mental capacity.
He’s been a gaffe machine his entire life. I don’t think that’s a sign of an old, decrepit mind, but the sign that the same Biden who referred to his running mate in 2008 as “Barack America” and his running mate’s opponent as “George” (rather than John McCain) is running for President in 2024. I think I like his answer. “You can either watch what I say during a high-pressure interview for 90 minutes, or you can watch what I did for 3.5 years with a staunch opposition throwing out the road blocks every chance they got. But if you vote against me, you get Project 2025. You might want to look that up before you cast your vote.”
I really want to see Biden as the last man standing… let the conference run 3 hours.
“C’mon, man! Ask me your questions! Ohhhh are you all getting ‘too tired’? Do you need to go home for naps?”
Why do they have to make everything a battle royale these days?
Next thing you know it’ll be open world too.
Goddamn fetch quests have already been added.
“To get your bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom, you first must travel 300 miles…”
This is the guy that stands between whatever this status quo is and the Trump brand of fascists. We’re cooked.
I don’t think he’s really doing anything to appease critics. He’s not doing bad, he’s just not doing well either. I’m sure the “Vice President Trump” bit will make its way around pretty quick.
As someone who is in the camp of calling for Biden to step down, if he would’ve just done this during the debate, we wouldn’t have ever had a problem. Sure, he stumbled and mixed names up… Whatever. George W Bush did far worse, let alone Trump. But that debate performance? That looked closer to outright dementia, I’m sorry. And now in the back of everyone’s minds is when is the inevitable next time he does this? For he certainly isn’t getting any younger, and that sure as shit wasn’t a cold. Meanwhile the apathetic battleground swing-voters who will decide this election and hate both candidates just got the confirmation they needed to say, “both sides / they’re all the same.”
Oh please… I don’t have to be a fucking doctor to have that perception while also having gone through several of these cases with grandparents and Great-grandparents alike. Like… Are ya blind? Show me Obama doing something like that on the debate stage. Hell even show me 2012 Biden doing that.
What a weak cop-out…
It’s already trending on Twitter. The constant throat clearing is a little much. He talks too low also.
A board-certified neurologist stated on NBC the other night that “it is a fact that he has Parkinson’s” based on a variety of his behaviors, the slow and low-toned voice being one indicator of many.
