The New Yorker has joined other major publications in calling for President Biden to step down after its editor said watching Biden speak at Thursday’s debate was a “painful experience.”
New Yorker The paper is the third newspaper, joining The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, to call on Biden to step aside and choose a younger Democratic candidate.
“We’ve known for a long time that Biden, whatever his issues with one policy or another, is no longer the man to communicate those policies flexibly and effectively,” New Yorker editor David Remnick wrote.
“When asked about his own decline, Biden’s communications team, and naturally his surrogates and advisers, will give reporters a response very similar to what we all say sooner or later to acquaintances when asked about our aging parents: they have good days and bad days,” he wrote.
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President Joe Biden watches as he participates in the first presidential debate ahead of the 2024 election alongside former US President and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at CNN studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. (Andrew Caballero Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Remnick wrote that watching Biden “dip into indiscretion” left observers with “pity” and “fear for the country.”
“Watching Thursday’s debate and watching Biden slip into indiscretions onstage was a painful experience. All of the vague, qualifying language used by White House officials about good days and bad days should be gone forever,” he said.
“Watching that, on the most basic human level, all I could feel was sympathy for the man and even more fear for the country.”
President Biden, pictured here with his wife, Dr Jill Biden, faced off against presumptive Republican presidential nominee, former US President Donald Trump, in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election season last week. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Remnick’s remarks came despite comments in defense from Biden’s allies, including former President Barack Obama, First Lady Jill Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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“Such loyalty is excusable, at least temporarily,” he wrote. “They did what they felt they had to do to avoid the immediate collapse of the Biden campaign, an irreparable plummet in approval ratings, the disappearance of fundraising, and the looming threat of a Trump resurgence.”
President Joe Biden stands at the podium during the first presidential debate of the 2024 presidential election with former President Donald Trump at CNN studios in Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Kevin D. Lyles for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
New Yorker editors said Biden’s continued campaign would be in direct contradiction to his years of public service.
“Continuing to campaign is purely vanity-driven and out of character for a man most people regard as conscientious and committed to public service,” Remnick wrote.
“Continuing the campaign at this point after the debate suggests it is impossible to imagine a more significant candidate,” he wrote.
Remnick ended his article by pointing out that “there is no shame in getting older” but rather that it is “honorable” to step back and withdraw from the race.
“It is sad to see this breakdown, but we all must. There is no shame in growing older,” he wrote. “It is an honor to recognize the stark demands of this moment.”
President Biden and former President Trump will face off in the first debate of the 2024 presidential campaign. (Getty Images)
The New Yorker article was published after the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article The New York Times They called on him to withdraw from the election.
“Mr. Biden says he is the candidate most likely to confront and defeat this threat of tyranny,” the Times reported. “His case rests heavily on the fact that he beat Mr. Trump in 2020. That’s no longer enough of a reason why Mr. Biden should be this year’s Democratic nominee.”
“Mr. Biden answered an urgent question Thursday night, and it was not the answer he and his supporters were hoping for,” the Times concluded. “But if the risks of a second term in Trump’s presidency are as great as he says — and we agree that they are — his commitment to this country leaves him and his party with only one choice.”
President Joe Biden exits with First Lady Jill Biden after the CNN presidential debate at CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
After the debate, Democrats and liberal media figures were reported to be in a state of “panic” over Biden’s performance.
Optically, overall The collapse of the Democratic mediaReporters from a variety of media outlets have reported on dozens of senior Democratic officials who say Biden, 81, should consider declining the party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention.
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Biden gave no indication he plans to resign during his first post-debate rally on Friday. Raleigh, North CarolinaHe claimed he had the ability to defeat President Trump.
“Frankly, the dangers of this job are too great for me to do this job,” Biden said forcefully. “Donald Trump is a real threat to this country.”
This composite photograph made on October 22, 2020, shows President Donald Trump (left) and Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during the final presidential debate at Belmont University on October 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Brendan Smiarowski, Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
President Biden also addressed his own poor performance, saying he’s “not debating as well as I used to.”
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“I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done,” he told a large crowd chanting “Four more years!”
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