According to NBC News, President Joe Biden is planning to discuss his political future with his family and Obama at Camp David on Sunday. The meeting comes after Biden’s horrific debate performance, which followed years of speculation about his cognitive abilities.
Although Republicans have expressed concern for a long time about Biden’s blunders, confusion, wandering aimlessly, and stumbles, the White House has insisted that those concerns are misguided. Last week, press secretary KJP called the many videos of Biden’s decline “cheapfakes.”
However Thursday’s abysmal debate performance, and the clear contrast between Biden and President Trump, who is only several years younger, have sent the entire Democrat party and the media into a full-blown panic.
Many have urged Biden to step aside, including the NY Times editorial board.
Biden’s trip to Camp David was planned before Thursday’s debate.
So far, the party’s top leaders have offered public support for Biden, including in tweets posted by former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Senior congressional Democrats, including Reps. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Nancy Pelosi of California, have privately expressed concerns about his viability, said two sources, but they publicly support the president.
“Speaker Pelosi has full confidence in President Biden and looks forward to attending his inauguration on January 20, 2025,” Ian Krager, a spokesman for the former House speaker said. “Any suggestion that she has engaged in a different course of action is simply not true.”
According to NBC News, the Bidens are privately not happy about the current situation.
The outlet reported:
“Biden was described by one person familiar with his mood as humiliated, devoid of confidence and painfully aware that the physical images of him at the debate — eyes staring into the distance, mouth agape — will live beyond his presidency, along with a performance that at times was meandering, incoherent and difficult to hear.
“It’s a mess,” this person said.
Another person familiar with the dynamics said Biden will ultimately listen to only one adviser.
“The only person who has ultimate influence with him is the first lady,” this person said. “If she decides there should be a change of course, there will be a change of course.”
NBC reported that a source familiar with the situation reached out to stress that the Camp David gathering was not a formal family meeting.
“Any discussion about the campaign is expected to be informal or an afterthought,” the source said. “No one is sitting down for a formal or determinative discussion.”
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