Biden vows to continue fighting Trump while campaigning
President Joe Biden spoke to his supporters in Pennsylvania after his rocky debate performance against Donald Trump.
Hawaii’s current and former Democratic governors have had mixed reactions to President Joe Biden’s candidacy for the 2024 election. Governor Josh Green supports Biden, but three former governors have called for him to withdraw from the race following his shaky CNN debate performance on June 27.
During a recent conference call with Biden and other Democratic governors, Green expressed his confidence in the president’s abilities. “I left the call with the impression that [he] was a different person from the one we saw in the debate,” Green told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He described Biden as a “healthy gentleman sharing ideas at the highest level.”
The Aloha State’s governor, who is also a physician, attributed Biden’s poor debate performance to fatigue from recent international travel, which included trips to France and Italy.
“The president had difficulties with exhaustion,” Green explained. “He was sick and exhausted after traveling before last Thursday’s debate against former President Donald Trump.”
The three former Democratic governors of Hawaii, John Waihee, Ben Cayetano, and Neil Abercrombie, who are in their late seventies and eighties, have publicly urged Biden to withdraw from the race. In a press release, they described Biden as “frail and seemingly muddled” during the debate and deemed him “unfit” to run a successful campaign.
“It is apparent to us that the debate was much more than a ‘bad night,’” the retired politicians declared. “The debate was not an episodic one-off but rather the result of an ongoing condition – a condition of decline that will not be reversible.”
Speculation about Biden’s future remains at a fevered pitch, and Green revealed that a decision on whether Biden will stay in the race will probably happen sooner vs. later. “We’ll probably know in the next couple of days how the president feels about all this,” Green told the Associated Press,
Jeremy Yurow is a politics reporting fellow based in Hawaii for the USA TODAY Network. You can reach him at JYurow@gannett.com or on X, formerly Twitter @JeremyYurow
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Publish date : 2024-07-08 20:42:11
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