US presidential election. Media on Joe Biden's future. White House comments

Terrible performance Joe Biden in the first presidential debate with Donald Trump before November elections has raised serious concerns within the Democratic Party. Some members have even begun to loudly call on the president to drop out of the race for the good of the party.

On Wednesday, US media reported that Biden is aware of his difficult situation.

As CNN writes in the title of the article, “Biden privately admitted that the next few days will be crucial to saving his candidacy.”

For the president, “there is no ambiguity about what sequence of events in the coming weeks would finally cause him to admit that his attempts to redeem himself after the disastrous debate are not working,” the report continued.

We are talking about a scenario – writes CNN, quoting its informant – in which “polls are plummeting, campaign fundraising is drying up and interviews are going badly.” – He is not unaware of it – said Biden's aide.

In turn, the New York Times, in a Wednesday article titled “Biden Tells Ally He's Considering Whether He Should Continue the Race (for the White House – ed.)” quoted an anonymous “key ally” of Biden's, who told the daily that the current president USA – although he remains deeply committed to his re-election bid – realizes that he is at a key moment in his campaign.

As the newspaper's source said, Biden is aware that his upcoming public appearances before the holiday weekend in the US – including an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos scheduled for Friday and campaign rallies in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – must go well, we read in the “NYT”.

– He knows that if he has two more events like this, we will be in a different place – the NYT source said, referring to the Biden-Trump presidential debate, in which the 81-year-old Democrat – in the unanimous opinion of commentators on both sides of the political barricade – performed very unfavorably.

In turn, the newspaper's source, described as a “top adviser” to Biden, said the president was “fully aware of the political challenges he faces.”

Almost immediately, White House deputy spokesman Andrew Bates responded to the New York Times' reports, writing on the X platform that the claim that Biden was considering withdrawing from the race was “absolutely false.”

“If the New York Times had given us more than seven minutes to comment, we would have told them so,” he added.

In a move to dispel doubts about the president's fitness after his weak debate performance, the White House announced a slew of new public appearances for Biden on Tuesday, including campaign rallies in Wisconsin and Philadelphia on Friday and Sunday, an ABC interview on Friday and a broader news conference during the summit FOR THIS next week (will take place on July 9-11).

According to the NYT, these appearances are expected to be crucial to Biden's future as the Democratic candidate in the November presidential election.

In the past two days, Democratic primary lawmakers — Reps. Jared Golden, Lloyd Doggett and Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez — have openly said the president has no chance of reelection and have called on him to drop out of the race. The party’s former congressional leader Nancy Pelosi said it was legitimate to ask whether Biden's debate performance was just an “episode” or a sign of Biden's ailments, calling on both him and Trump to get tested.

Biden will hold a conference with Democratic state governors on Wednesday evening. One of them, mentioned among Biden's potential alternatives, Illinois' JB Pritzker, told CNN on Tuesday that Biden “remains the nominee until we say otherwise.”

On Tuesday, CNN also published surveywhich shows that although the debate did not change Biden's ratings – already worse than Trump's before the debate – the vice president has greater support Kamala Harrishis natural successor. The poll shows Biden trailing Trump nationally by 43-49 percent, while Harris trails Trump 45-47 percent.