On Tuesday, President Biden said that his recent trip overseas left him so exhausted that he almost “fell asleep” during his appalling debate performance last week. Despite having 13 days to recuperate from the trip, which included a week at Camp David with afternoon naps, he still claimed to be so exhausted from his travels. With calls from fellow Democrats growing for him to step down and make room for a new presidential nominee before the election on November 5, the 81-year-old commander-in-chief offered the latest justification. In McLean, Virginia, Biden told Democratic fundraisers, “I decided to travel around the world a couple of times… shortly before the debate.” “Traveling around the world a few times wasn’t very smart.” The president went on, “I almost fell asleep on stage because I didn’t listen to my staff.” Though he had only made two quick travels abroad recently—to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France on June 5–9 and to Italy for the annual G7 meeting on June 12–14—Biden pointed the finger at overseas travel.
Biden and White House staff prepared for the discussion over six days at the Maryland presidential retreat, Camp David. He landed there on June 20 and departed for Atlanta, the debate’s location, early on June 27. Having attended the Group of Seven summit in Italy from June 12 to 14, Biden returned to the United States early on June 15 and immediately boarded Air Force One to Los Angeles to attend a glamorous Hollywood fundraiser. On June 16, Biden made his way back to the White House. On June 18, he made a brief visit to his residence in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, before continuing to Camp David. From June 5 to June 9, Biden visited France to commemorate D-Day’s 80th anniversary among allies and have a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. Despite mounting worries from Democrats—including one on Tuesday from U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas, the first Democrat in Congress to urge Biden to withdraw—Biden has declared he won’t be withdrawing from the race.
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President Joe Biden in the Atlanta debate with Donald Trump. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo) (AP) “I decided to go around the world a few times… right before the debate,” Biden declared during a McLean, Virginia, campaign fundraiser. “I didn’t listen to my staff, and then I almost fell asleep onstage,” he joked. During a pause in a sponsored presidential debate, President Joe Biden (right) and Republican contender and former president Donald Trump (left) stood. His fundraisers are off-limits to cameras, and written pool reports are used by the media.
During fundraisers, Biden has already expressed his opinions openly and unexpectedly. In honor of D-Day’s 80th anniversary, the US President traveled to France last month. After that, he went back to the US before traveling to Italy for the Group of Seven Summit. After attending a fundraiser in Los Angeles, Biden spent three days getting ready for the debate at Camp David in Maryland.
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The night following the debate on Friday, the president also traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a campaign rally. president joe appeared more animated at his appearance in North Carolina than he had the previous evening. president traveled almost 2,000 miles to attend a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles two weeks before his horrible debate performance. Biden attended a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles, some 2,000 miles away, two weeks before his appalling debate performance (X/@mmpadellan). It occurs at a time when several of Biden’s senior allies, including Nancy Pelosi, have expressed worries about the senator’s mental health and clarity.
The former Speaker of the House urged both candidates to submit to testing, calling the questions posed by voters on the matter “legitimate.” “I believe that asking, ‘Is this an episode or is this a condition?’ is a legitimate question,” Pelosi said to MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday. In other news, Texas Representative Lloyd Doggett has become the first sitting Democratic member of Congress to endorse the president withdrawing from the race by calling on Biden to halt his re-election campaign. Doggett stated in a Tuesday post that Biden has “substantially lagged” other Democratic contenders in competitive contests, has lagged behind Trump in the majority of surveys, and then “failed” to reveal the lies told by his Republican opponent during the debate. “Whoever has the best chance of preventing an authoritarian takeover of our democracy by a criminal and his gang must be our primary concern,” he declared.