The president of the United States, Joe Biden, hopes that a televised interview on Friday will establish his endangered his re -election commitment, but a repetition of his disastrous debate performance could be his fall.
In the week since his debate against Donald Trump, his first head of the 2024 electoral cycle, Biden, 81, has not been able to calm panic among his Democratic party.
For 90 minutes last Thursday, a Ronco Biden fought clearly, stumbling with the words and losing his train of thought.
Since then, a growing choir in his party has asked him to prove that he has energy to defeat Trump in November and handle another four years in the White House.
Despite winning the support of Democratic governors, who met with him at an emergency meeting on Wednesday, at least three of his members of his party in Congress have asked him to do aside, just like several meetings important publishers of newspapers and a series of political commentators.
The president has said that “he does not leave” and is “in this race until the end”, but the surveys subsequent to Debato have shown that Trump’s narrow lead was expanded.
Biden has not yet spoken publicly without a teleprompter since the debate, apart from some short comments.
Therefore, Friday’s interview with ABC presenter George Stephanopoulos, scheduled to be recorded during a campaign trip to Wisconsin, will be a key moment for Biden to dissipate concerns and restore expectations.
With great anticipation for the interview, ABC has changed its original plan to transmit extracts during the weekend, and instead will transmit it on Friday at 8:00 pm (0000 GMT on Saturday).
Biden will face a journalist who knows the functioning of political communication as no one else.
Stephanopoulos worked for former Democratic president Bill Clinton during his first campaign and was one of his closest advisors during his first mandate in the White House.
Biden, a former stuttering, will also have to recover confidence with a clear and cohesive speech, as much as in the substance.
The former president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, one of the most influential democratic voices, has considered “essential” that the president does one or even two high profile interviews.
Other supporters have asked for a long format press conference to judge their resistance.
The White House has announced that it will hold a press conference during the NATO Summit in Washington next week, but has not revealed any detail about its format or duration.
Meanwhile, Trump dared Biden to another debate, or a “total discussion”, saying Thursday that was ready “at any time, anywhere, anywhere.”
With the speculation still turning on a possible change in the upper part of the Democratic ticket, Kamala Harris, the first vice president of the nation, has suddenly been forced to attention.
The former 59 -year prosecutor from California, who joined Biden in the celebrations on Thursday, July 4, has been doing a delicate act of balance since the debate.
She has offered unwavering support for Biden in public, but is standing as a leader contender to replace him if he leaves aside.
