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 Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesJoe Biden's family told him Sunday to fight on after his disastrous debate performance in a verdict delivered at a Camp David gathering for an Annie Leibovitz photoshoot.
The president's wife, children and grandchildren were at the presidential retreat as a new poll showed three out of four voters do not believe the 81-year-old should seek a second term in the wake of Thursday night's mumbling, stumbling performance.
But instead of counseling the president to announce that he would not seek a second term, the Bidens blamed his staff for failing to prepare him to take on Donald Trump, The New York Times reported.
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President Biden is trying to figure out how to tamp down Democratic anxiety after last week's disastrous debate performance.
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Some Democrats worry that keeping Biden at the top of the ticket will hurt in November, but several top party leaders said the president is best positioned to defeat Trump.
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 Reuters/Kevin LamarqueA beleaguered Joe Biden was holed up in Camp David on Sunday, reportedly preparing to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with close family members—although not, perhaps, with the one he should actually be talking to.
Three days after a disastrous performance in Thursday's first presidential debate against Donald Trump, the 81-year-old faces a torrent of calls—including from friends and former supporters—to drop out of the race for the sake of the nation.
But even those considered genuine Bidenworld "insiders" cannot agree on who might be best-placed to counsel the president as he faces the most consequential decision of his life: his wife of 47 years, Jill Biden; or the woman who has been at his side throughout his long political career, younger sister Valerie Biden Owens.
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The president's aides have prevented any major Democrat from calling on him to step aside after a poor debate showing. But their tactics have bred some resentment.
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 Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesFor weeks, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. railed against the first presidential debate.
CNN, the debate's host, determined that Kennedy had not qualified for the ballot in enough states to appear on stage. As their party's presumptive nominees, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will qualify for the ballot later this summer. Kennedy's campaign filed an FEC complaint against CNN and even threatened legal action against everyone at the company involved in debate planning.
But Kennedy may have won the debate without even showing up.
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