President Biden has reportedly told an ally he knows he’ll have to bow out of the 2024 race for the White House if he can’t turn things around in the coming days following last week’s train wreck debate against Donald Trump.
The 81-year-old president has apparently pinned his re-election’s future on an ABC News interview and campaign stops in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin over the holiday weekend, the New York Times reported, citing an unnamed source.
“He knows if he has two more events like [the debate], we’re in a different place,” the ally told the outlet.
The report marks the first evidence that Biden is considering giving up on his bid for a second term after he and his team repeatedly rejected the possibility following the June 27 debate.
White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates attacked the Times report Wednesday as “absolutely false.”
“If the New York Times had provided us with more than 7 minutes to comment we would have told them so,” Bates tweeted shortly after the story was published.
