Biden Should Drop Out After “Failed” Debate Performance, Says NYT

deadline.com:

“Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago,” the New York Times said today in the understatement of the moment as it a called for the incumbent to bow out of this year’s race against Donald Trump before it’s too late. “The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant,” the paper’s Editorial Board wrote late Friday in a piece headlined “To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race.”  “(T)he greatest public service Mr.

Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election.” Read the full NYT Editorial Board piece calling for Joe Biden to exit the race below The unprecedented insistence by the Grey Lady comes after nearly 24 hours of hand wringing and calls for an intervention as the weak voiced 81-year-old Biden stumbled and croaked through his primetime showdown with Trump on CNN. “It’s too big a bet to simply hope Americans will overlook or discount Mr.

Biden’s age and infirmity that they see with their own eyes,” the Editorial Board piece noted bluntly. Earlier Friday, NYT columnists Thomas L.

Friedman and Paul Krugman both pleaded with Biden to drop out. Still, amidst simultaneous “don’t panic” and “panic” missives from Democratic operatives and suggestions of how Biden could release his delegates at August’s convention to put a successor in place, the urgings of the NYT met with a pretty quick dismissal by the Biden team. “The last time Joe Biden lost the New York Times editorial board’s endorsement it turned out pretty well for him,” a Biden/Harris campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond told Deadline.