Per the Nyt 'Biden is considering quitting', but the White House denies it
The newspaper reconstructed a confidence made to an ally: for the first time, the Democratic leader would open up to the possibility of withdrawing
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The White House denies the New York Times and reaffirms that Joe Biden remains in the running for the presidential elections next November. But the pressure on the president to make way for another candidate is becoming very strong and even the indiscretion published by the progressive newspaper inevitably ends up adding doubts, if any were needed, among voters and among the leaders of the Democratic Party.
The New York Times' claim that Joe Biden is considering dropping out of the re-election race is 'absolutely false'. White House spokesman Andrew Bates said this in a post on X on Tuesday 3 July, minutes after the article was published. "If the New York Times had given us more than seven minutes to comment, we would have told them," Bates added.
The New York Times rumours
Biden 'is considering whether to continue the race', wrote the New York Times, reconstructing a confidence made to an ally, in which, for the first time, the Democratic leader opens up about the possibility of withdrawing. Biden in particular - according to what one of his advisers told the American newspaper - reportedly told a friend and ally that he was aware that his candidacy might not work if in the coming appointments he is unable to convince the Americans that he is totally reliable and able to continue the job. The next public and TV appearances could therefore be decisive: 'The president is well aware of the political difficulties he faces,' Biden's advisor confided to the New York Times, emphasising the president's own ongoing contacts with governors and Democratic leaders in Congress.
The dreadful performance in the televised debate with Donald Trump marked, however it goes, Biden's political future: Americans have the images in their eyes, bounced from TV to social media, of the president stammering and babbling in an attempt to counter the obvious falsehoods and bravado of his conservative rival.
Biden insists, against polls
The White House staff, in the evening on Tuesday 3 July, insisted again: 'From President Biden no intention of dropping out of the race'. "I'm running. I'm the chairman of the Democratic Party. Nobody is pushing me out. I've been knocked out before and when you get knocked down you get back up," Biden said.
