White House Report Card: Biden’s excus­es fuel push to exit 2024 race

White House Report Card: Biden’s excuses fuel push to exit 2024 race

This week’s White House Report Card finds Pres­i­dent Joe Biden fac­ing a grow­ing cho­rus of pan­icky Democ­rats wor­ried about their own polit­i­cal fate urg­ing him to drop his reelec­tion bid.
The sting of Biden’s poor debate per­for­mance last week with for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump con­tin­ued to linger but instead of ral­ly­ing around their leader, Democ­rats and their lib­er­al media allies are aban­don­ing the 81-year-old chief exec­u­tive.
In a Hail Mary inter­view with ABC News on Fri­day, for­mer Clin­ton aide and anchor George Stephanopou­los asked sev­er­al ques­tions of Biden that had a sim­i­lar theme: Leave now. While humil­i­at­ing, Biden kept his smile on and pushed back, say­ing only God could force him out of the race.
He and his team poured out mul­ti­ple excus­es for his poor per­for­mance. He had a cold, he was jet-lagged, he was sleepy, he suf­fered from some unk …