The ABC News panel had some choice words for President Biden following his primetime interview with anchor George Stephanopoulos on Friday.
“Look, Biden looked better and certainly more coherent than he did during the debate, but there's nothing in this interview to calm the nerves of nervous Democrats who fear that Joe Biden is on track to lose this race, to lose to Donald Trump,” ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl told Stephanopoulos after the interview.
“In fact, for some of those people, the interview is raising new concerns, in particular the fact that he is unwilling or unaware of the fact that he is in dire straits here with respect to the campaign, that he is losing, in the view of many Democrats and, frankly, in the polls that you cited, that he is losing to Donald Trump,” he said.
BIDEN WAS CRITICIZED FOR NOT BEING SURE IF HE WATCHED THE DEBATE: “DID YOU NOT KNOW?”
President Biden raised eyebrows when he refused to commit to cognitive testing during an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos. (Screenshot/ABC)
Karl added that it was “alarming” when Biden said he would be happy with a hypothetical loss to former President Trump as long as he “gave it his best shot.” [his] everyone,” telling Stephanopoulos that a Biden ally reacted to him with a “wow.”
“The bottom line here is that there was nothing in this interview that forces Joe Biden to drop out of the race… but there's also nothing in this interview that calms the nerves of Democrats who say it's time for him to get out,” Karl added.
Martha Raddatz, ABC News' chief global affairs correspondent, said Democrats she texted insisted the interview “wasn't as bad as they expected,” but added: “That's a pretty low standard.”
Congressional correspondent Rachel Scott told Stephanopoulos after hearing from Democratic lawmakers that they are concerned that while “the dam hasn't broken tonight,” “the bleeding hasn't stopped either.”
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ABC News' Jonathan Karl said Biden's interview won't “calm the nerves” of “nervous Democrats” who are pushing for him to exit the 2024 race. (Screenshot/ABC)
“Another Democrat telling me, 'Better, but I'm not sure it's enough,' that they need more than one interview, more than 22 minutes to prove that the president has the stamina to continue in this race and defeat Donald Trump,” Scott said before adding that the “movement” trying to eliminate Biden as the Democratic nominee “is growing.”
Biden repeatedly avoids answering whether he would take a neurological test: “No one said I had to do it”
Raddatz concluded the panel by pointing out Biden's default response, “Look at me,” when asked about his age, and emphasizing that aging “is not like a broken bone. It doesn't get better.”
“Everybody's watching and believe me, they're going to watch us even more closely as we go along, George,” Raddatz told the host.
Among the most talked-about moments of Biden’s interview with Stephanopoulos, his first since last month’s presidential debate, was his uncertainty about whether he had seen his disastrous debate performance and his refusal to commit to a cognitive test.
President Biden was hoping to do damage control in his ABC interview following his disastrous performance in last month's presidential debate. (Fake Images)
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Biden's shocking debate performance has become a political earthquake that has shaken broad sectors of the… liberal media calling for him to withdraw from the presidential race.
At a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Friday, Biden insisted he would “stay in the race.”
