“Biden is the candidate,” he said. “I suspect he will be the candidate. I’ll do my best to get him elected.”
“He was not focused. He did not defend a very strong record,” he later added. “He should have been loud and clear in telling the American people that he was the first president in American history ever to walk on a picket line.”
Amid growing calls for him to step aside or be replaced as the Democratic nominee, Biden told a rally of supporters on Friday that he would not be dropping out the race under any circumstances.
“I don’t walk as easily as I used to, I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to, I don’t debate as well as I used to,” Biden said at a rally. “But I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth.”
Meanwhile, the Times wrote in its editorial that Biden is “not the man he was four years ago” and his candidacy amounts to a “reckless gamble” with American democracy.
“Mr. Biden has said that he is the candidate with the best chance of taking on this threat of tyranny and defeating it,” the editorial argued. “His argument rests largely on the fact that he beat Mr. Trump in 2020. That is no longer a sufficient rationale for why Mr. Biden should be the Democratic nominee this year.”
