President Joe Biden told Ed Gordon of BET News that he would drop out of the race if a doctor told him to.
Biden also said he planned to serve only one term! I somehow doubt that he made that decision himself.
From The New York Times:
In an interview with Ed Gordon of BET News, Mr. Biden was asked if there was anything that would make him re-evaluate staying in the race.“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” Mr. Biden said, according to a brief excerpt released by the network.The comment is the latest in a series of shifting explanations by the president about what might cause him to reconsider. In an interview with ABC News this month, Mr. Biden said he would drop out only if the “Lord almighty” told him to. At a news conference in Washington several days later, he said he would stay in the race unless aides came to him with proof that he could never win.In the BET interview, he conceded that he “made a serious mistake in the whole debate” and would re-evaluate his decision if one of his doctors changed their assessment of him.Mr. Biden also said for the first time that he had expected to “move on” from the presidency and “pass it on to somebody else” but decided to run again because he believed his “wisdom” and experience would help heal the country’s worsening divisions.“You may remember Ed, I said I was going to be a transitional candidate, and I thought I would be able to move on from this and pass it on to somebody else,” the president said. “But I didn’t anticipate things getting so, so, so divided. And quite frankly, I think the only thing age brings is a little bit of wisdom.”
Rep. Adam Schiff became the latest Democrat to call Biden to withdraw. I think he’s the 21st Democrat in Congress to voice his opinion.
Biden also said he planned to only serve one term, but changed his mind because of his so called accomplishments, which he alluded to in a previous interview.
Again, something tells me the man behind the curtain made the decision for him:
Now, with his comments in the BET interview, Mr. Biden indicated that he had initially expected to serve one term but changed his mind.“I think I’ve demonstrated that I know how to get things done for the country in spite of the fact that we were told we couldn’t get it done,” Mr. Biden told Mr. Gordon. “But there’s more to do, and I’m reluctant to walk away from that.”The full interview is scheduled to air at 10 p.m. Eastern.The president said something similar during a news conference in Washington this month, when a reporter asked what changed from the time he promised to be a bridge candidate.“What changed was the gravity of the situation,” Mr. Biden said. “What I realized was, my long time in the Senate had equipped me to have the wisdom to know how to deal with the Congress to get things done. We got more major legislation passed that no one thought would happen. And I want to finish — to get that finished.”
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