{"id":132141,"date":"2024-07-03T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/democrats-begin-attacking-bidens-performance-and-campaign\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T09:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T06:15:42","slug":"democrats-begin-attacking-bidens-performance-and-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/democrats-begin-attacking-bidens-performance-and-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats begin attacking Biden\u2019s performance and campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132141\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nTop Democrats have begun forcefully and aggressively criticizing President Joe Biden\u2019s debate performance and pushing back against what they call an unconvincing response from his campaign to worries that he\u2019s no longer up for the job \u2014 delivering a dire warning to the party. Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), called on Biden to drop out of the race. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), a key ally of the president, told MSNBC\u2019s Andrea Mitchell that he will back Vice President Kamala Harris if Biden steps aside. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi said it\u2019s completely legitimate to question whether Biden\u2019s debate performance was \u201can episode or is this a condition?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic governors are also planning to meet with Biden, possibly as soon as Wednesday, after more than two dozen gathered on a call this week to vent about the president. \u201cFolks want to know \u2014 what\u2019s the plan, Joe? What is the plan not only for you, but the rest of us to get out there and carry the flag? Are you able and is the campaign able to maintain the pace?\u201d said one Democratic adviser to a governor who was on the call. The Democrat was granted anonymity to discuss the private matter.<\/p>\n<p>The collective response on Tuesday highlighted that members of Biden\u2019s own party are beginning to be more open about their frustration with the president and his team in the wake of last Thursday\u2019s disastrous debate performance \u2014 where he was at times unable to string together complete sentences \u2014 an issue that could hurt Democrats up and down the ticket in November.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in Congress had mostly stood behind the president, at least publicly, in the days since. Many conceded he had a poor performance but asserted that Biden should be judged for the entirety of his presidency rather than a 90-minute debate. But in the past 24 hours, at least a half-dozen current or former Democratic members of Congress have bucked the trend, openly acknowledging their skepticism that his campaign is taking the right steps to restore voters\u2019 confidence. Of those, two have called on Biden to step aside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of reassuring voters, the President failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump\u2019s many lies [during the debate],\u201d Doggett wrote in a statement. \u201cToo much is at stake to risk a Trump victory. \u2026 President Biden saved our democracy by delivering us from Trump in 2020. He must not deliver us to Trump in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw. I respectfully call on him to do so,\u201d Doggett said. Doggett, who is serving his 15th term in Congress, added that Biden was polling \u201csubstantially\u201d behind Democratic senators and former President Donald Trump in battleground states and encouraged his party to pursue an \u201copen, democratic process\u201d to select a new nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Former Rep. Tim Ryan, who ran against Biden in the Democratic primary in 2020, wrote in an op-ed in Newsweek titled \u201cKamala Harris Should Be the Democratic Nominee for President in 2024\u201d published Monday evening: \u201cWitnessing Joe Biden struggle was heartbreaking. And we must forge a new path forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Biden] promised to be a bridge President to the next generation. &#8230; Regrettably, that bridge collapsed last week,\u201d he wrote. Ryan added that Democrats need to \u201crip the band aid off\u201d and make Harris their nominee, praising the vice president for having \u201cgrown into her job\u201d and calling her a more formidable debate opponent against former President Donald Trump.\u00a0 A spokesperson for the Biden campaign did not immediately respond to POLITICO\u2019s request for comment on Doggett\u2019s call for the president to withdraw.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/02\/democrats-biden-debate-fallout-00166208\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/07\/02\/democrats-biden-debate-fallout-00166208\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/democrats-begin-attacking-bidens-performance-and-campaign\/\">Democrats begin attacking Biden\u2019s performance and campaign<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3836,800,4538,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-132141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-attack","tag-biden","tag-democrats","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}