The ABC News panel had some choice words for President Biden after his prime time interview with presenter George Stephanopoulos on Friday.
“Look, Biden looked better and certainly more coherent than he did in the debate, but there’s nothing in that interview that calms the nerves of nervous Democrats who are worried that Joe Biden is on a trajectory to lose this race, to lose to Donald Trump,” ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl told Stephanopoulos after the interview.
“In fact, for some of these people, the interview raises new concerns, including the fact that he is unwilling or unaware of the fact that he is in a dire situation here in terms of the campaign, that he is losing, in the view of many Democrats and frankly according to the polls that you cited, that he is losing to Donald Trump,” he said.
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President Biden raised eyebrows when he refused to commit to a cognitive test during an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. (Screenshot/ABC)
Karl added that it was “alarming” that Biden said he would settle for a hypothetical loss to former President Trump as long as he “gave it his all,” telling Stephanopoulos that a Biden ally had reacted to him with a “wow.”
“Bottom line: There is nothing in this interview that will force Joe Biden to drop out of the race…but there is also nothing in this interview that will calm the nerves of Democrats who say it’s time for him to step aside,” Karl added.
Martha Raddatz, ABC News’ chief international affairs correspondent, said Democrats she texted insisted the interview “wasn’t as bad as they expected,” but added: “That’s a pretty low bar.”
The network’s congressional correspondent, Rachel Scott, told Stephanopoulos after hearing from Democratic lawmakers that they were concerned that while “the dam hasn’t broken tonight,” “the bleeding hasn’t stopped either.”
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ABC News’ Jonathan Karl said Biden’s interview would not “calm the nerves” of “nervous Democrats” who are pushing for him to withdraw from the 2024 race. (Screenshot/ABC)
“Another Democrat tells me, ‘Better, but I’m not sure it’s enough,’ that they need more than one interview, more than 22 minutes to prove that the president has the stamina to continue in this race and defeat Donald Trump,” Scott said, before adding that the “movement” trying to oust Biden from the Democratic nomination is “gaining momentum.”
Raddatz concluded the panel by highlighting Biden’s default response, “Look at me,” when asked about his age, noting that aging “is not like a broken bone. It doesn’t get better.”
“Everybody’s looking at us and believe me, they’re going to be looking at us even more closely as we go along, George,” Raddatz told the anchor.
Among the most talked-about moments of Biden’s interview with Stephanopoulos, his first since last month’s presidential debate, were his uncertainty about whether he had watched his disastrous debate performance and his refusal to engage in a cognitive test.
President Biden hoped to limit the damage during his ABC interview after his disastrous performance in last month’s presidential debate. (Getty Images)
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Biden’s shocking debate performance has become a political earthquake among broad swaths of the liberal media calling on him to withdraw from the presidential race.
At a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Friday, Biden insisted he was “staying in the race.”
