ABC News shows an interview with the president, who is fighting for his political future, at 3 o’clock Finnish time.
In the United States, the president Joe Biden is trying to turn around his election campaign in deep trouble by sitting for the most important TV interview of his career on Friday.
Biden is interviewed by an ABC News anchor in Madison, Wisconsin George Stephanopoulos.
Biden, 81, tries to convince US voters in an interview that last week’s poor performance in the election debate Republican challenger Donald Trump against was only due to a bad mood one day.
Biden’s campaign attributed the poor performance to the president’s cold, and Biden himself said he was still tired from his visit to Europe a couple of weeks before the debate.
After the debate, Biden’s support in the opinion polls turned to decline and within the Democratic Party, the discussion intensified about the possibility of changing the presidential candidate even before the August party convention.
Biden has also been heavily criticized this week for how he has appeared more and more often only in safe situations as his season has progressed, and has mostly given pre-written speeches in them.
In an interview with ABC News, Biden tries to shake off concerns that he would no longer be able to perform convincingly in surprising situations due to his physical and mental condition.
The length of the interview has not been made public in advance, but the newspaper has of The New York Times according to the information, the conversation is likely to last around 15-25 minutes.
The interview will not be shown live, but the channel will first show a short clip of the pre-recorded interview on Friday at around 1:30 a.m. Finnish time. The interview will be shown on the channel in its entirety at 3 o’clock Finnish time.
ABC has promised to show the conversation between Biden and Stephanopoulos from beginning to end without cuts, so any attempts by the president to end the interview ahead of time would be visible to viewers.
Retired former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel reviews the newspaper For The Wall Street Journalthat even if Biden’s performance in next night’s interview goes well, doubts about the president’s health will continue.
– All it takes is one slip in even one interview or public appearance, and all the same questions will surface again, Koppel said.