6 points from Biden’s interview

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This is an important part of Biden’s career if he can weather this storm. There are Democrats firmly behind Biden certainly. But many, if not most, others are biting their nails and waiting to see what the polls say.

Biden downplayed questions about his political standing, doubts about his ability to lead or to defeat Trump. “I’ve seen it from the press.” “I don’t think the vast majority are there.” “I don’t believe that’s my approval rating.”

Will the Democrats and persuadable voters believe that he is up for four more years in office? Biden insists he is up to the job, but he is getting older and is at exactly the wrong time. Going into the debate, the bar of expectations was very low. It was all up to Biden to clear it. He didn’t do it. And now the bar has been raised. Every public appearance, speech and debate will be magnified if there is another one.

Historian Douglas Brinkley once said of former President George W. Bush, “Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership—if you’re right about what you’re stubborn about.”

What can a young man say about the world and how he can handle foreign policy, even when he is a small speaker of the House?

It is not likely that the Speaker of the House will tell Biden to stop campaigning, and if he did he would leave the door slightly ajar.

He later asked, incredulously, who else would have the “reach” he has with allies and whether anyone else could handle foreign policy as well as he can – even though he’s clearly diminished from what he was even a few years ago.

That’s not even, say, his vice president? Stephanopoulos didn’t follow up with that, but it was curious. Even though Biden has kept Harris close, even though she hoisted her arm in the air at a Fourth of July event as if she had just won a boxing match and even though he has a lot of questions about his age, it’s not like he could do a better job.

We are now entering week two after the debate. It usually takes a couple of weeks for public opinion to solidify. The polls show Biden has been hurt by the debate, which is debatable.

If he is where he was before the debate, it will be good for support. If he slips further behind Trump, there will be more Democrats calling for him to step aside.

The GOP does not seem to care if two dozen people have accused their nominee of sexual assault, if he ran a sham university and if he paid off a porn star.

“We’re gonna see where Donald Trump is going”: A message from the vice president during his attempt to reclaim his reelection bid

The vice president took to the campaign trail in Pennsylvania on Sunday as he tried to resurrect his reelection bid despite calls from some Democrats for him to pull out.

He has been trying to demonstrate that his debate flub was just one bad night and not a sign of something more serious. At Mount Airy Church of God in Christ, a praise band belted out a worship song that was “I need you to survive”, as the bishop urged unity.

“Forgive us for allowing the enemy to drive wedges between us,” Felton prayed. If we come together and lock arms, there is no election that we cannot win.

Later, Biden stopped at a campaign field office where he gave some high-energy unscripted remarks about economic issues important to voters, like grocery and insulin prices.

“Dark Brandon’s coming back,” Biden said to the group of volunteers as he referred to a meme his campaign uses to mock his opponents. “And guess what: in the next 120-some days or so, they are going to get a real good look at who Donald Trump is,” he said.

Biden was in close proximity to Sen. John Fetterman. Fetterman said that only one person in the country had ever kicked Trump’s ass in an election. “He’s going to do it twice.”

Democratic leaders in the House were convening a virtual meeting on Sunday with the top Democrats on House committees. Some appeared on Sunday morning political talk shows, reflecting the range of opinions within the party about whether Biden should stay at the top of the ticket.

“This is more about whether he made the right decision to run or topass the torch, rather than whether he gave it the best college try,” he said. If Biden steps back, he thinks Vice President Harris could beat Trump.

Dingell said that she was heard from voters that Biden should stay in. “I had people in parades shout at me, ‘Tell him to stay — we have his back,'” she told CNN’s State of the Union. “I really do think that as much as you’re hearing a lot of different opinions from other people, that’s what’s happening,” she said.

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., said he had spoke with Biden on Saturday. The president talked about what he’s seeing in internally polling data, and what his plans were for coming days. “He is as pumped and as eager as I’ve seen to make sure he’s taking this campaign seriously,” Padilla told MSNBC.

Biden faces a critical week in Washington, as his party’s lawmakers return to Congress — and world leaders come to the city for a NATO summit, where Biden is set to give a rare solo press conference, where he will be faced with answering more questions about his age and abilities.

Tom Brush, a member of the Michigan Democratic Party, said the current state of the race is a sad moment and that he had hoped the president would step aside for the good of the party.

“My experience is that people can reach a stage in their life when they’re not is vital as they once were,” said Brush, 90, a long-time Democratic voter, in an interview at his home.