The British weekly magazine The Economist believes that President Joe Biden should withdraw from the 2024 presidential election becaus...
The British weekly magazine The Economist believes that President Joe Biden should withdraw from the 2024 presidential election because he and his party portray themselves as the saviors of democracy when their actions say nothing but the opposite.
What's worse, it said, the debate between the "befuddled old man" and former President Donald Trump was "awful for Joe Biden, but the cover-up has been worse."
The article cited Biden's inability to land an argument against a "weak opponent." "It was dispiriting. It was agony to watch a befuddled old man struggling to recall words and facts. But the operation by his campaign to deny what tens of millions of Americans saw with their own eyes is more toxic than either because its dishonesty provokes contempt," the neoliberal magazine wrote.
It also pointed out that the incumbent president deserves to be remembered for his "accomplishments" and his "decency" rather than his decline. It agreed with the first senior Democrats for calling openly for the president to step aside.
It also said that people can no longer be deceived by the cover-ups of the mainstream media, the Biden campaign and his family. Biden may still appear dynamic during short appearances. However, his mental state could no longer lead a superpower nation by cues and scripts, let alone put an international crisis on hold because he is tired, jetlagged or having a bad night.
"Biden's claim that this election is between right and wrong is ruined by the fact that the existence of his campaign now depends on a lie," the write-up included.
The Economist is only the latest corporate media organ to call for Biden to exit the election. Several formerly friendly media personalities have also called on Biden to bow out, including MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, who, as recently as March, claimed, "This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever, not a close second, and I've known him for years." The Atlantic magazine criticized Representative James Clyburn as dishonest for attempting to defend Biden by claiming the president simply had a stutter.
The independent media outlet first warned in 2022 that Biden should not seek re-election because he was too old. "A fresh candidate would have just over ten weeks after the convention to make their pitch. Such a candidate might lose, obviously, though even then the catharsis of Biden's self-sacrifice would help restore American politics," it added. "But we believe that they would have a good chance of winning, a better one than Biden, even if the candidate was Kamala Harris, his relatively unpopular vice president."
It said that these candidates would be fit to govern and they would, except for Harris, deprive Trump of his strongest arguments against Biden such as inflation, immigration and the 'supposed "witch-hunt"' that led to Trump's prosecution.
Biden campaign sent preset questions for radio interviews
To make sure that the president was ready for interview questions and that he would not commit any more gaffes before the election, his campaign team provided lists of approved questions to two radio hosts following his catastrophic debate performance.
The POTUS' July 4 appearances on Black radio shows in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were his chance to prove he could answer questions and discuss his record after he repeatedly struggled to complete sentences and press his case against former President Donald Trump during the debate. Radio host Earl Ingram said that Biden's aides reached out to him directly and sent him a list of four questions in advance, about which there was no negotiation.
"They gave me the exact questions to ask," Ingram told the Associated Press. "There was no back and forth." Ingram's "The Earl Ingram Show" is broadcast statewide across 20 Wisconsin outlets. Meanwhile, Biden campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt told CBS News in a statement Saturday afternoon that "it's not at all an uncommon practice for interviewees to share topics they would prefer," calling the questions "relevant to news of the day." "We do not condition interviews on acceptance of these questions and hosts are always free to ask the questions they think will best inform their listeners," Hitt claimed.
Another Biden administration official told the news outlet that the White House was not involved in any preparation for the radio interviews and said that providing questions to interviewers is not standard practice for the White House and the campaign is not planning to do it again going forward.
Appearing with Ingram earlier on CNN, Andrea Lawful-Sanders, host of "The Source" on WURD in Philadelphia, said that she had received a list of eight questions, from which she approved four.
During Ingram's show, Biden argued that much more than his own political future was in jeopardy, "The stakes are really high. I know you know this. For democracy, for freedom ... our economy, they're all on the line." Ingram asked if Biden could "speak to some accomplishments that we may or may not be familiar with about your record, especially here in Wisconsin," what was at stake for Black voters in the election, what Biden would say to people who believe their vote doesn't matter and if he could address his debate performance and a remark Trump made during the debate about people crossing the border and taking what he called "Black jobs."
"I didn't have a good debate. That's 90 minutes on stage.
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