Sunday, June 30, 2024

New York Times first US paper urging Biden to drop out of 2024 election

from PressTV

The New York Times has become the first US paper to urge the incumbent president Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election race following a weak debate performance against former president Donald Trump.

Biden, a Democrat, and Trump, a former Democrat who turned Republican, met on Thursday night at the CNN headquarters in Atlanta, without a live audience.

During the first round of debates ahead of the upcoming presidential election slated to be held in November, the presumptive nominees argued about the US economy, foreign policy, COVID, abortion and immigration, while exchanging multiple insults, name-calling one another’s family members and morals, and even challenging their rival to a Golf match.

On Friday, NYT's editorial board called on Biden, 81, to drop out of the race.

They said Democrats needed to find a better candidate to replace Biden.

NYT's editorial board cited Democrats admitting Biden was no match for Trump...

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