The presidential campaign in the United States and still questions among Democrats about Joe Biden’s ability to lead and win the electoral battle. These doubts are expressed more and more openly and the president counterattacks this Monday, July 8.
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It’s a two-part counterattack. First, a letter to Democratic lawmakers who are meeting on Capitol Hill this week. Several of them have expressed doubts about the ability of Joe Biden to run his campaign after the debate, in which he appeared diminished. Others, fewer in number, have publicly called for his withdrawal. Still others have done so privately, as recently as yesterday during a remote meeting hosted by House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
In this letter, Joe Biden makes it very clear that the speculation must now stop. I am firmly determined to stay in the race “, wrote the American president in the letter to the Democratic parliamentarians, back in session in Washington after the break for the July 4 national holiday. Any lack of discernment about the task ahead would only help [l’ancien président et candidat républicain Donald] Trump and us are being let down. It’s time to come together ” writes Joe Biden.
Joe Biden, 81, makes it known that he is “not not blind ” It front of ” concerns ” expressed since this televised duel against his 78-year-old opponent, during which he appeared very tired and confused. But he recalls having won his party’s primary by a large margin and asserts that ” It is not up to the press, the commentators, the big donors ” to decide on his presidential candidacy. He therefore still sees himself as the best placed to beat Donald Trump in November.
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“Challenge me at the convention!”
Second salvo this morning, when he calls the presenters of Morning Joea morning show on MSNBC that he is a loyal fan of and which usually supports him almost unconditionally, much like Donald Trump once did with Fox News.
In that phone call, Joe Biden took aim at the elites who want to sideline him. Those guys who think I shouldn’t run, let them run against me. […] Challenge me to the convention “Democrat of the month of August,” Joe Biden said in an angry tone. I don’t care what millionaires think “, he said again, saying to himself ” convinced “to have the support of” the average voter “, and seeing a favorable omen in the result of the French legislative elections. ” France Rejected Extremism, (American) Democrats Will Reject It Too “, he said.
Joe Biden stressed that he had campaigned vigorously since his failed debate, while Donald Trump had “not nothing done » (sic) if not « riding around in his golf cart ” in his luxurious Florida residence.
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