In an unusual rebuke of the Biden presidency, The New York Times’s Editorial Board published an editorial signed by the longtime newspaper’s Friday night that called upon the commander in chief to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election.
The editorial, titled, “To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race,” argued that Biden’s argument, that he is the best candidate to defeat President Donald Trump because he did so in 2020 “is no longer a sufficient rationale for why Mr. Biden should be the Democratic nominee this year.”
The Times’ call comes in the wake of what many Democratic operatives, U.S. and foreign news outlets and even foreign ambassadors are calling a concerning CNN debate performance Thursday night as the president struggled to answer basic questions about policy and hesitated at times to even respond as he stared blankly into the cameras.
