Photo: Jacquelyn Martin Associated Press “I will stay on the move,” President Biden promised Thursday during a press conference held as part of the NATO summit.
Published yesterday at 10:57 a.m. Updated yesterday at 1:12 p.m.
Joe Biden returns to the campaign trail on Friday, in the decisive state of Michigan, after delivering a press conference which neither alleviated nor aggravated concerns around his candidacy.
The American president must deliver a speech at 6 p.m. in Detroit, in this industrial state in the Great Lakes region that he absolutely must win in November to beat Republican Donald Trump.
He will, according to his campaign team, describe “what America could accomplish in the first hundred days of a second Biden term.”
“I will stay on the move,” the 81-year-old Democrat promised Thursday, during a press conference presented as crucial for his political destiny, very uncertain since a calamitous debate on June 27 against the 78-year-old Republican billionaire.
Everyone will have seen what they wanted to see in this exercise of about an hour, which above all confirmed that Joe Biden was now the most eagerly scrutinized politician in the entire planet.
The president's supporters were delighted with his knowledge of issues, particularly international ones, and his overall controlled performance.
“No, Joe Biden does not have a doctorate in foreign affairs. He’s just fucking strong,” Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, applauded during the press conference.
In the other camp, we pointed out his hazardous speech and above all two monumental slips of the tongue.
Shortly before appearing in front of journalists, the American president announced “President Putin” when he wanted to welcome the Ukrainian head of state Volodymyr Zelensky. He immediately recovered.
During the press conference, he referred to “Vice President Trump,” instead of his running mate Kamala Harris, much to the delight of his opponent. “Great job, Joe!” “, quipped Donald Trump.
On Friday, one of the architects of the Democratic leader's victory in 2020, African-American elected official James Clyburn, assured NBC that he was “totally committed” to Joe Biden.
The question now is whether the president gained enough time on Thursday to survive the political and media storm, or whether he has only postponed an inevitable withdrawal.
The slow drain of support within the Democratic Party continues, but has not turned into a hemorrhage for the moment.
At the last count, around fifteen Democratic congressmen openly asked the American president to withdraw his candidacy before the August nominating convention in Chicago.
All eyes are now on the major figures of the party, and in particular two of them: former leader of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and former President Barack Obama.
The first, a politician of formidable skill, asked insistently this week for Joe Biden to “make a decision,” pretending to ignore his determination to stay in the race. The second, who we saw campaigning with his former vice-president, and who retains immense influence over the Democratic electorate, is silent for the moment.
The polls follow one another and are similar.
All indicate that Joe Biden's disastrous performance during the debate, while it flares up Americans' concerns about his ability to govern for a long time, does not significantly move the electoral lines in an extremely politically divided country.
An opinion poll broadcast by public radio NPR credits the Democrat with 50% of voting intentions nationally, compared to 48% for Donald Trump.
Other polls give the Republican the advantage, but still within the margin of error.
The most worrying trend for the president remains its persistent delay, according to several opinion surveys, in certain decisive states.
Among them, Michigan, therefore, but also Nevada, in the western states -United States, where Joe Biden will go next week.
Anxious to prove his vitality, the octogenarian president, who until recently avoided spending too much time with journalists, will also give an interview Monday on NBC.
His team still promises “more interviews” as “counter-programming to the Republican convention”, which should lead to the inauguration of Donald Trump next week in Milwaukee, in the northern United States.
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