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Joe Biden Fires Back at Age Criticism, Vows Re-election Bid After Debate
US President Joe Biden has responded to attacks about his age, telling supporters in a furious speech that he will win re-election in November. This follows a bad debate performance that raised concerns about his candidacy.
“I know I’m not a young man, to state the obvious,” he said at a rally in the crucial state of North Carolina on Friday, one day after struggling in the televised duel with his Republican challenger, Donald Trump.
“I don’t walk as smoothly as I used to…”I don’t debate as well as I used to,” he admits. “But I know what I do know, I know how to tell the truth [and] I know how to do this job.”
Joe Biden, 81, said he felt in his “heart and soul” that he could serve another term as a cheering throng in Raleigh yelled, “four more years”.
While issues about Joe Biden’s age are not new, his weak performance on the debate stage, which included verbal blanks, a scratchy voice, and some difficult-to-follow responses, alarmed several Democrats and created new concerns about his campaign.
Mr Biden’s campaign has maintained that the country’s oldest presidential contender is still capable of serving another term. Despite his dismal performance, campaign organizers stated another nominee would not replace him.
“Absolutely not,” Mia Ehrenberg, a Biden campaign spokesperson, responded to concerns about whether Joe Biden would withdraw his candidacy.
While numerous campaign surrogates, including Vice President Kamala Harris, confessed to reporters that the president tripped during the debate, they reaffirmed their support for the older statesman and emphasized that his responses were more meaningful than Mr Trump’s.
“The president might have lost the debate on style, but he won it on facts, decency, and the ideas people think are important in this country,” campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu said on CNN the morning after the debate.
In the days afterward, many senior Democrats and Biden supporters have made additional efforts to defend the former president’s performance and allay liberal concerns.
Former President Barack Obama, still one of the party’s most popular icons, remarked that “bad debate nights happen”.
“This election is still a choice between someone who fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself,” Obama said. He continued by stating that Trump is “someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit”.
However, Democratic concerns about Joe Biden are far from allayed.
Party leaders, political operators, and those close to the president who talked with the BBC‘s Katty Kay described a worried party concerned about the strength of their candidate.
Nancy Pelosi, the former Democratic House Speaker, stated that “from a performance standpoint, it wasn’t great”. Other Democrats, including Biden’s former communications director Kate Bedingfield, described the debate as “a really disappointing debate performance”.
Democratic contributors who talked anonymously to various media sources were more blunt, with one calling the performance “disqualifying”.
“The only way it could have been worse was if he had fallen from the stage. “Big donors are saying… he needs to go,” one Democratic operative told the Financial Times.
On Friday, the New York Times editorial board urged Mr. Biden to drop out. It urged Democrats to “acknowledge that Mr Biden can’t continue his race, and create a process to select someone more capable to stand in his place” .
Mr. Trump, however, staged his own rally in Virginia mere hours later, hailing a “big victory” in the debate, which CNN reported was watched by 48 million people on television and millions more online.
“Joe Biden’s problem is not his age,” Trump, 78, added. “It is his competence. He’s quite incompetent.
The former president dismissed suggestions that Biden will withdraw from the race, claiming he “does better in polls” than other Democrats, including California Governor Gavin Newsom and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Despite concerns raised by certain media pundits, early indications suggest that there has been “no change” in polls following the discussion, according to Washington Post columnist Philip Bump on BBC R4’s Today program.
Later in the program, pollster Frank Luntz stated that there might not be a big change in voters’ intentions because most Americans have already decided who they will vote for later this year.
However, early polls show that American voters saw Mr Trump as the overwhelming winner.
A post-debate poll conducted by liberal pollster Data for Progress revealed that 62% of potential voters who saw or read about the debate believed Trump won. Only 30% of those polled by the progressive polling company said Mr Biden won the debate.
Until more polling is done, fundraising could indicate sustained excitement for Joe Biden’s candidacy; a large shift in that direction could pose a serious challenge to Democrats.
In an apparent effort to demonstrate its continued momentum, the Biden campaign announced that the president had raised $14 million from fundraisers in recent days.
From the Thursday debate until Friday evening, it was reported that Joe Biden had raised more than $27 million for his campaign.
Joe Biden is reportedly expected to meet with other donors on Saturday. He has planned fundraisers in the affluent New York Hamptons and Red Bank, New Jersey.
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Democrats Now Leaderless After Trump Presidential Win
Democrats spent billions of dollars with the legacy media to try and create fear among American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy; in the end, voters didn’t care. They chose to believe their own eyes and not the rhetoric.
Following Kamala Harris’ decisive loss, the Democrats are now entering a second Trump presidency without a clear leader, a clear plan, or an accord on the reasons for their significant miscalculations in the 2024 election.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and former Democratic primary candidate, had warned Harris before Election Day that she was focusing too much on flipping Republican votes and not enough on pocketbook issues. He issued a statement excoriating party leadership.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he said. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
Trump’s promises to impose tariffs on both allies and foes and his threats to American businesses contemplating the relocation of jobs offshore were alluring to union workers.
Alexandra Rojas, the executive director of the far-left Justice Democrats, told AP that the party’s leadership must “accept responsibility for that a second”Donald Trump presidency was once again feasible under their supervision.”
Rojas charged that the Democratic Party is los”ng legitimacy among the everyday people and marginalized communities, who are continuously used as stepping stones to win elections. She also acknowledged that “there are no easy answers for where we as a coun”ry and movement go from here.”
The data indicates that Democrats have” substantial work to do.
Faiz Shakir, the Democratic strategist who oversaw Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, is concerned that Sanders’s Democratic Party will fail to engage in the necessary introspection after this catastrophic defeat.
He asserted that “a healthy party is challenging itself to conduct”that type of autopsy and hear what we did wrong.” “I am not even aware that such a process will occur. He asks, “Will the Democratic Party’s well-paid consultant and big-money interParty learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?”
“Will they comprehend the political alienation and pain that tens of millions of Americans are currently experiencing?” Do they have any suggestions for how we can confront the Oligarchy, which is gaining economic and political influence at an accelerated pace? It is unlikely, he said.
Source: AP
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Kamala Concession Speech Trends on Google
One day after former President Donald Trump’s historic re-election, Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the presidential race and vowed to maintain unity. Her concession speech trended on Google with over 5 million searches.
“I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign, but I do concede this election.” She stated, “In our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party, but to the Constitution of the United States.”
Kamala Harris acknowledged that there was no viable strategy for obtaining the presidency even though her speech was not what she intended.
In the center of Washington, DC, Harris delivered a speech at her alma mater, Howard University. Harris expressed her gratitude to the hundreds of campaign workers and volunteers who worked assiduously on her campaign and to the tens of millions of voters who cast their votes for her.
Kamala Harris also stated that the country should unite for a peaceful power transfer despite the agony of losing.
She said, “We must acknowledge the outcomes of this election.” “I conversed with President-elect Trump earlier today and congratulated him on his victory.”
I also informed him that we would assist him and his team during his transition and participate in a peaceful transfer of power.
In the interim, Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a caustic statement regarding the presidential election results, accusing the Democratic Party of having “abandoned” working-class voters. It’s unsurprising that “a Democratic Party that has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”
Sanders, who secured re-election last night, stated that the party’s white working-class voters were the first to quit and that it now appears that Latino and Black workers are following suit. “The American people are enraged and desire change despite the Democratic leadership’s defense of the status quo,” he stated. “And they’re right.”
Trump and Vance were also congratulated on their electoral victory by former President Obama, who ardently campaigned for Harris in the final stretch before Election Day. This was announced in a statement published today.
“This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues,” according to him. “But living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won’t always win out, and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power.”
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Despite All the Odds Donald Trump Elected 47th President
On Wednesday, Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, a remarkable turnaround for a former president who refused to concede defeat four years ago.
Trump achieved the 270 electoral votes required to secure the presidency with a victory in Wisconsin. On Wednesday afternoon, he emerged victorious in Michigan, conquering the “blue wall” with Pennsylvania.
On Wednesday afternoon, Vice President Kamala Harris contacted President-Elect Trump to congratulate her and acknowledge his victory in the election. Shortly thereafter, Vice President Biden conversed with Trump to extend his congratulations and invitation to the White House.
Foreign leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also phoned Trump.
“I would like to express my gratitude to the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected as your 47th and 45th president,” Trump addressed a crowd of enthusiastic supporters in Florida before officially confirming their victory.
“Today, you demonstrated unprecedented attendance to secure a victory, and we have endured an immense amount of hardship together,” Trump said. This was truly exceptional, and we will repay you,” he added.
Upon his return to office, Trump will collaborate with a Senate that is now under Republican control, while the House’s governance remains uncertain.
Elon Musk’s Tesla, banks, cryptocurrencies, and the U.S. stock market all surged Wednesday as investors anticipated a smooth election and Trump’s return to the White House.
Trump has pledged to implement an agenda that prioritizes the substantial revamping of the federal government during his second term.
When Trump assumes office on January 20, he will face various challenges, such as global crises testing America’s influence abroad and heightened political polarization.
Trump has pledged to revolutionize nearly every facet of the American government. This encompasses the intention to initiate the most extensive deportation operation in the nation’s history, once more pursue a zero-sum approach to foreign policy, and increase the use of tariffs.
Upon his arrival in Washington in 2017, Trump was unfamiliar with the mechanisms of federal authority. Congress, the judiciary, and senior staff members who acted as guardrails impeded his agenda.
This time, Trump has declared that he will surround himself with allies who will execute his agenda without question and arrive with hundreds of proposed executive orders, legislative proposals, and in-depth policy papers.
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