The excuses have mounted for President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in his debate against former President Donald Trump, and that trend has continued.
His campaign has a new excuse after blaming a cold, jet lag from a trip he took 12 days before the debate and his opponent “lying.”
The new excuse is that the president has been a gaffe machine for his entire career, so his gaffes should be expected.
“Joe Biden has been making gaffes for 40 years. He made a couple of last night. He will probably continue to do so,” his campaign’s communications director Michael Tyler said, The Daily Mail reported.
The most recent gaffes included the president calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “Putin” and calling Vice President Kamala Harris “Vice President Trump.”
“’Nobody is going to work harder to beat Donald Trump than the President of the United States Joe Biden,” the communications director said. “We’re gonna continue to sit down for interviews.”
The president is known for his gaffes, as outlet detailed in its report:
In February, Biden mistakenly claimed to have met Francois Mitterand, who died in 1996, at the G7 summit in 2021.
The same week, he said that he had spoken to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017, about the January 6 riots, which happened in 2021.
In September 2022, Biden, at a White House event, called out to Rep. Jackie Walorski, who had died in a car accident in the previous month.
‘Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie?’ …
In September 2008, Biden was at an event in Missouri where he called out a state senator.
‘I’m told Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up Chuck, let ’em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about. I’ll tell you what, you’re making everybody else stand up, though, pal,’ he said.
Graham was in a wheelchair.
The gaffes tend to stick in the minds of voters, and it is one reason many Democrat voters want him to step aside.
A solid majority of Democratic voters now say they want President Joe Biden to end his re-election bid and step aside after seeing him struggle in his debate last month with former President Donald Trump and since, even though national polling has the race very tight.
A significant 67% of respondents believe that Biden should withdraw from the race, and 85% think he is too old to complete a second term. At the same time, 60% of respondents also feel that former President Trump is too old for a second term, up from 44% in the spring of 2023, according to a poll from ABC News and the Washington Post.
“Among Democrats and voters who said they lean Democratic, 62% say Biden needs to drop out of the race. Even among self-professed Biden supporters, 54% say he needs to drop out,” Fox News reported, citing the results.
Despite the poll’s results, which bode ill for Biden, the poll found that he and Trump are nearly tied. According to the poll, 46% of respondents indicated they would vote for Biden, while 47% expressed support for Trump. The poll revealed that replacing Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee would lead to better outcomes. According to the poll, Harris received 49% support, while Trump received 46%.
A leading Super PAC backing Trump’s 2024 White House bid, Make America Great Again Inc., reported raising $104 million in the second quarter of 2024 fundraising from April to June.
Additionally, MAGA Inc. noted that it has close to $114 million in cash in numbers initially told to Fox News on Friday.
The announcement comes a week and a half after Trump’s campaign revealed that it and the Republican National Committee raised an incredible $331 million over the previous three months, surpassing the enormous $264 million that the Democratic National Committee and President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign received during the same period.
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