Is the Press Trying to Hound Biden Out of a Job?

Much ado is being made over President Joe Biden’s debate performance last week. Too much?

13/06/2024. Fasano, Italy. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak watches speaks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as they attend the G7 Summit in Borgo Egnazia (Fasano) in Apulia, Italy. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street. (Photo: Number 10)

Since the debate last week, there has been a deluge of negative press coverage about President Joe Biden.

“To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race,” intoned the New York Times editorial board on June 28, 2024.

“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,” begged the editorial board.

“Ending his candidacy would be against all of Mr. Biden’s personal and political instincts,” they added. “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,” they went on. “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…