Phoenix – Joe Biden’s time in the public office is now behind him, but for him Age and mental intensity The Litmus test for the leaders coming in his party has become.
A new book claims that White House aides have covered Biden’s physical and mental retreat, has re -questions about Biden’s health in the spotlight, months after former Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President Donald Trump. Many potential democratic competitors were asked to nominate in 2028 in recent days whether they believed that Biden was declining in his position or whether he should have been asked to re -election before A. The performance of the catastrophic debate He led to his withdrawal.
Many Democrats prefer to focus on Trump’s second state. Trump made his best to prevent this – mentioning the name Biden On average six times a day During his first 100 days in his position, according to NBC news analysis – and the Republicans followed his progress, betting that voters who were frustrated by Trump’s movements will continue to prefer him over the unpopular memories of the presidency.
In the Ruler of Virginia, one of the highest prominent competitions this year, Republicans Earl Serz run a pair of television advertisements that link Democrat Abigil Spanberger to Biden, with pictures of They embrace And the former president calls it a friend.
“The smell of Joe Biden is still based on the Democratic Party,” said Democratic Strategic Expert Sir Hacket. “We have to do hard work to fix this, and I think this includes saying the truth, frankly, when we were wrong.”
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut Politico said This week, “There is no doubt” that Biden, 82, has witnessed a cognitive decrease as president.
Bojij houseThe former Minister of Transport, was almost not explicit, but still without defending Biden’s decision to run. He replied, “Perhaps” when he was asked on Tuesday if the Democratic Party would be better if Biden did not try to run for a second period.
“At the present time, with the feature of late perception, I think most people will agree that this is the case,” Buttigieg told reporters while stopping in Iowa.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker He said he had not seen signs of mental or physical retreat in his meetings with Biden.
“I saw him several times.” “I certainly went to the White House whenever there was an opportunity for me to clarify the issue for something for people in my state. I had nothing other than the man who brought to the table a lot of good ideas about how to solve problems.”
The book “Orginal Sin” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thombson from Axios, re -controversy with Biden’s presidency: his decision to run for a second period despite the voters, including Democrats, tell opinion polls that he should not run again. Biden was 86 at the end of a second term if he won November.
A spokesman for Biden did not respond to a request for comment.
“We are still waiting for anything that shows the place where Joe Biden was forced to make a presidential decision or where national security was threatened or where he was unable to do his work,” said a spokesman for many media outlets in response to the book.
Although Democratic leaders rejected a series of verbal fluting and republican allegations about its decrease, Biden faced widespread doubts in his party.
In January 2022, just one year after the first state of Biden, AP-NORC Public Research poll found only 48 % of Democrats wanted to seek to re-election. This fell to 37 % of Democrats in AP-NORC poll was conducted in February 2023. Three quarters of Americans-and 69 % of Democrats- He said in August 2023 They believed that Biden was too big to be president for another four years.
Soon after his discussion, Almost two thirds of the Democrats Biden said you should withdraw from the race.
Biden and the former first lady, Jill Biden, appeared in “The View” from ABC in a preventive defense of his health and manufacture before the first excerpts of “original sin”.
He said He is responsible for Trump’s victory But Harris’s loss, at least in part, attributed to sexual bias and racism. He confirmed that he would have won if the democratic candidate remained. Bidens rejected concerns about its cognitive retreat.
Patricia McNerney, a 74 -year -old Democrat in Judyer, Arizona, said Biden did not try to run again.
She said, “I think it is sad to end.”
I compared him with Douglas Mac Arthur, World War II and Korean, which was rejected by President Harry Truman.
“I think he needs to stop having interviews. I think that will help,” McKinni said. “As McA Arter said, the generals are only fading.”
Janet Styames, a 66 -year -old Democrat, also had Judyer, one of the suburbs of Phoenix, had a different view.
“I don’t think this will harm the Democrats,” said Steames. “I feel uncomfortable because he feels that he must defend himself. I don’t think he is.
Hackett, a democratic strategic expert, expected that Biden would be a major factor in 2026 or the preliminary elections in 2028. But he said that the Democrats who want to trust their voters would numb well “by telling the truth about the mistakes that our party committed in the period before 2024.”
“These mistakes were largely driven by Joe Biden, and I think any democracy is not ready to say that this is not really ready to confront the voters, who want the truth and want to originality,” Hackett said.
Rick Wilson, a former strategic expert in the Republican Party, who participated in the founding of the anti -Trump Lincoln group, said the Republicans want to talk about Biden to avoid defending Trump. But he said the strategy is foolish.
Besides “political obsessive”, he said: “Nobody cares.”
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The Associated Press Thomas Pomont writer contributed to this report from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
