WASHINGTON: United States President Joe Biden combined up the title of his vp, Kamala Harris, and his Republican rival Donald Trump on Thursday (Jul 11) at a news conference the place the 81-year-old goals to quell concerns that he is too old to run for re-election.
“Look, I would not have picked Vice President Trump to be vp if she was not certified to be president. So begin there,” Biden stated as he responded to a query from Reuters about his confidence in Harris.
That got here a number of hours after Biden mistakenly referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “President Putin”.
“And now I wish to hand it over to the president of Ukraine, who has as a lot braveness as he has willpower, girls and gents, President Putin,” Biden stated at the NATO summit in Washington, drawing gasps from these within the room.
“Going to beat President Putin, President Zelenskyy. I’m so targeted on beating Putin,” Biden stated whereas correcting himself.
Biden faces rising doubts from donors, supporters and fellow Democrats, who concern he now not has the power to beat Republican Donald Trump within the November election or to steer the nation for one more four-year time period.
Biden’s marketing campaign has been on the ropes for 2 weeks, since his poor debate performance towards Donald Trump, his 78-year-old Republican rival.
To date, 13 of the 213 Democrats within the Home and one of many Senate’s 51 Democrats have appealed publicly to the president to withdraw from the race. Extra might make their considerations public if he fares poorly in his press convention.
United Auto Staff union officers met on Thursday to debate their considerations along with his candidacy, three sources aware of the matter stated, after endorsing Biden in January.
The 400,000-member union has an enormous presence in industrial states like Michigan that Biden might want to carry to win re-election.
Biden advisers met with Senate Democrats to attempt to quell additional defections. His marketing campaign argued that the talk has not dramatically shifted the race, even because it laid out a slender path to re-election that acknowledged that it confronted an uphill climb in lots of states he received in 2020.
That didn’t cease 4 extra Democrats within the Home of Representatives referred to as on Biden to finish his marketing campaign: Brad Schneider of Illinois, Greg Stanton of Arizona, Ed Case of Hawaii, and Hillary Scholten of Michigan.
“For our nation’s sake, it’s time for the President to go the torch to a brand new technology of leaders,” Stanton stated in a ready assertion.