Hunter Biden is “one of the most vocal members” of the Biden family and reportedly urged President Joe Biden to stay in the presidential race after his performance at the presidential debate.
President Joe Biden appeared confused and frozen, struggling to navigate his prepared closing statement and addressing several false allegations, after it was previously reported he was meeting with several members of the Biden family at Camp David to discuss the future of the presidential campaign.
The president reportedly gathered with several members of the Biden family. included His wife, First Lady Jill Biden, and their children, son Hunter Biden and daughter Ashley Biden, and grandchildren. The New York Times.
While many donors, Democratic Party officials and voters have questioned whether Biden can serve a second term as president and are calling for him to be replaced, the Biden family is reportedly urging the president to “stay in the race and keep fighting,” multiple anonymous sources familiar with the situation told the outlet.
Hunter Biden was described as “one of the most powerful voices” urging the president not to drop out of the race.
One of the people urging Biden to resist pressure to back down is his son, Hunter Biden, whom the president has long sought advice from, said one of the people familiar with the discussions, who, like the others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. Hunter Biden wants Americans to see the combative, fact-ready father he knows, not the shambling aging president they saw Thursday night.
The outlet added that the Biden family and several Democrats, including Democratic fundraiser John Morgan, have blamed former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, Biden senior adviser Anita Dunn and Biden lawyer Bob Bauer for Biden’s lackluster performance in the debate.
Ahead of his presidential debate with former President Donald Trump, Biden attended a “debate camp” at Camp David where he received “intensive preparation and coaching.”
“It’s like putting a boxer about to enter a title fight in a sauna for 15 hours and then telling him to fight,” Morgan said in the interview, according to the media.
Despite Biden’s performance in the presidential debates, people like former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have defended Biden, saying “there are bad nights in debates.”
