NYT: “To Serve His Country, Biden Should Leave the Race”

Biden’s debate performance was a mess.

Everyone agrees: the right, the left, Kamala Harris. Even the MSM like CNN and MSNBC are saying he’s shot, and Democrat lawmakers are calling for him to be removed and replaced before the election.

Now, The New York Times is taking it one step further, calling on Biden to “serve his country” by leaving the race.

Wow. The official position of the New York Times is now that Biden should drop out. pic.twitter.com/8s7aSutTI7

— Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) June 28, 2024

After Thursday's debate, writes the editorial board, voters "cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago."

Read: https://t.co/pmT2lYUEaO pic.twitter.com/jUnzxTOVqN

— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) June 28, 2024

In case it ends up taken down, here’s a screenshot from the article:

That’s not all — the entire front page on the NYT website is just different ways of saying Biden should drop out.

Look at this:

The entire New York Times homepage right now is 10 different articles trying to get Biden to drop out 😂 pic.twitter.com/nsM8eEaSJP

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) June 28, 2024

Here’s an excerpt from the New York Times article:

At Thursday’s debate, the president needed to convince the American public that he was equal to the formidable demands of the office he is seeking to hold for another term. Voters, however, cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago.

The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant. He struggled to explain what he would accomplish in a second term. He struggled to respond to Mr. Trump’s provocations. He struggled to hold Mr. Trump accountable for his lies, his failures and his chilling plans. More than once, he struggled to make it to the end of a sentence.

Mr. Biden has been an admirable president. Under his leadership, the nation has prospered and begun to address a range of long-term challenges, and the wounds ripped open by Mr. Trump have begun to heal. But the greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election.

As it stands, the president is engaged in a reckless gamble. There are Democratic leaders better equipped to present clear, compelling and energetic alternatives to a second Trump presidency. There is no reason for the party to risk the stability and security of the country by forcing voters to choose between Mr. Trump’s deficiencies and those of Mr. Biden. It’s too big a bet to simply hope Americans will overlook or discount Mr. Biden’s age and infirmity that they see with their own eyes.

If the race comes down to a choice between Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden, the sitting president would be this board’s unequivocal pick. That is how much of a danger Mr. Trump poses. But given that very danger, the stakes for the country and the uneven abilities of Mr. Biden, the United States needs a stronger opponent to the presumptive Republican nominee. To make a call for a new Democratic nominee this late in a campaign is a decision not taken lightly, but it reflects the scale and seriousness of Mr. Trump’s challenge to the values and institutions of this country and the inadequacy of Mr. Biden to confront him.

Ending his candidacy would be against all of Mr. Biden’s personal and political instincts. He has picked himself up from tragedies and setbacks in the past and clearly believes he can do so again. Supporters of the president are already explaining away Thursday’s debate as one data point compared with three years of accomplishments. But the president’s performance cannot be written off as a bad night or blamed on a supposed cold, because it affirmed concerns that have been mounting for months or even

years. Even when Mr. Biden tried to lay out his policy proposals, he stumbled. It cannot be outweighed by other public appearances because he has limited and carefully controlled his public appearances.

It should be remembered that Mr. Biden challenged Mr. Trump to this verbal duel. He set the rules, and he insisted on a date months earlier than any previous general election debate. He understood that he needed to address longstanding public concerns about his mental acuity and that he needed to do so as soon as possible.

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The truth Mr. Biden needs to confront now is that he failed his own test.