{"id":2285612,"date":"2024-06-28T19:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T23:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-editorial-board-urges-biden-to-step-aside-after-debate-fallout-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T23:48:35","slug":"new-york-times-editorial-board-urges-biden-to-step-aside-after-debate-fallout-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-editorial-board-urges-biden-to-step-aside-after-debate-fallout-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times editorial board urges Biden to step aside after debate fallout &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-editorial-board-urges-biden-to-step-aside-after-debate-fallout-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2285612&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The editorial board of the New York\u200c Times published an \u2063article \u2064urging President Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race following a notably poor performance\u200d in a debate against Donald Trump. The\u2064 article highlighted Biden&#8217;s difficulties\u200c in communicating effectively, responding to Trump&#8217;s provocations, and articulating his visions for a second term, describing him \u2064as a diminished figure no longer capable \u200cof\u2063 meeting the demands of the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Adding\u2063 to the critical\u2064 response, Jon Favreau, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama, described the debate as the worst he had ever seen on his podcast &#8220;Pod Save America.&#8221; Meanwhile, another \u2062Obama administration alum, Van Jones, \u2063suggested that there was still time for the \u200bDemocratic Party to identify a \u2062new direction and \u200dcandidate ahead of the upcoming convention, underscoring a broad sense\u2064 of urgency and disappointment among some \u200csupporters and \u2064observers.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>New York Times&rsquo;s<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reuters-joe-biden-delivers-latino-child-labor-to-slaughterhouses\/\" title=\"Reuters: Joe Biden Delivers Latino Child Labor to Slaughterhouses\">editorial board&#038;nbsp<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/28\/opinion\/biden-election-debate-trump.html?campaign_id=190&amp;emc=edit_ufn_20240628&amp;instance_id=127524&amp;nl=from-the-times&amp;regi_id=251287128&amp;segment_id=170874&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=cacf4b228705dfb5d9ecd5ab354cf678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published an article<\/a>&nbsp;urging President Joe Biden to step out of the race following his disastrous performance at Thursday night&rsquo;s debate against former President Donald Trump. The authors said the debate ruled out &ldquo;sufficient rationale for why Mr. Biden should be the Democratic nominee this year.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At Thursday&rsquo;s debate, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-suggests-psaki-should-not-take-questions-from-fox-news\/\" title=\"Don Lemon Suggests Psaki Should Not Take Questions From Fox News\">president needed<\/a> to convince the American public that he was equal to the formidable demands of the office he is seeking to hold for another term. Voters, however, cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago,&rdquo; the authors wrote.<\/p>\n<p>They continued, &ldquo;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-campus-anti-semitism-skyrockets-even-as-coronavirus-forces-remote-learning\/\" title=\"Report: Campus Anti-Semitism Skyrockets Even as Coronavirus Forces Remote Learning\">president&#038;nbsp<\/a>;appeared on Thursday night&nbsp;as the shadow of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/developing-gen-colin-powell-dies-at-84-of-covid-19-complications\/\" title=\"DEVELOPING: Gen. Colin Powell dies at 84 of COVID-19 complications\">great public servant<\/a>. He struggled to explain what he would accomplish in a second term. He struggled to respond to Mr. Trump&rsquo;s provocations. He struggled to hold Mr. Trump accountable for his lies, his failures and his chilling plans. More than once, he struggled to make it to the end of a sentence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Biden more than once struggled to finish his sentences and communicate the vision of his next presidency. In the middle of it, his campaign circulated that he had developed a cold in the hours before the debate in the hope of tempering concerns over his raspy voice.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama&rsquo;s speechwriter&nbsp;Jon Favreau called the debate a &ldquo;f***ing disaster&rdquo; and said he thought &ldquo;it was the worst debate I&rsquo;ve ever seen in my entire life&rdquo; on his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crooked.com\/podcast\/a-brutally-honest-debate-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">podcast<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>Pod Save America<\/em>,&nbsp;on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&nbsp;think there&lsquo;s a lot of people&nbsp;who are going to want to see&nbsp;[Biden] consider taking a different&nbsp;course now. We&lsquo;re still far&nbsp;from our convention, and there&nbsp;is time for this party to&nbsp;figure out a different way&nbsp;forward if he will allow us to&nbsp;do that,&rdquo; Van Jones, who worked in the Obama White House, said. &ldquo;That was not what&nbsp;we needed from Joe Biden, and&nbsp;it&rsquo;s personally painful for a&nbsp;lot of people. It&lsquo;s not just&nbsp;panic. It&rsquo;s pain of what we saw&nbsp;tonight.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>If Biden were to call off his campaign, it would create other problems for Democrats &mdash; notably that the money Biden has raised could only be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3063909\/money-problem-democrats-could-have-if-biden-replaced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>transferred to the other person<\/a> on the ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has low approval ratings as well.<\/p>\n<p>Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3064119\/biden-campaign-no-talk-stepping-aside-whatsoever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a>, &ldquo;There are no conversations about [dropping out] whatsoever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/patently-absurd-rep-chip-roy-blasts-dnc-for-wanting-to-police-private-text-messages-about-covid-19\/\" title=\"\u2018Patently Absurd\u2019: Rep. Chip Roy Blasts DNC For Wanting To Police Private Text Messages About COVID-19\">article continues<\/a> to say the board does not endorse Trump but demands the Democratic Party put the &ldquo;interests of the nation above the ambitions of a single man.&rdquo; The authors did not suggest a replacement for Biden.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The clearest path for Democrats to defeat a candidate defined by his lies is to deal truthfully with the American public: acknowledge that Mr. Biden can&rsquo;t continue his race, and create a process to select someone more capable to stand in his place to defeat Mr. Trump in November. It is the best chance to protect the soul of the nation &mdash; the cause that drew Mr. Biden to run for the presidency in 2019 &mdash; from the malign warping of Mr. Trump. And it is the best service that Mr. Biden can provide to a country that he has nobly served for so long,&rdquo; the article concluded. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times editorial board called for President Joe Biden to withdraw from the race after a poor debate performance against Donald Trump. They argued that the debate showed no compelling reason for Biden to remain the Democratic nominee this year, emphasizing the president&#8217;s failure to assert his candidacy effectively during the event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2970,"featured_media":2285613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024_Debate_Trump_Biden_77.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,33265,33264,33263,32076],"class_list":["post-2285612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-debate-fallout","tag-editorial-board","tag-new-york-times","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024_Debate_Trump_Biden_77.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2970"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}