How Did Biden Do at His News Conference?
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President Biden’s news conference on Thursday was watched closely, less for what he said than how he said it.Credit…Eric Lee/The New York Times
To the Editor:
Re “In News Conference, Biden Has Slips but Shows Strength on Foreign Policy” (news article, nytimes.com, July 11):
President Biden’s performance at Thursday’s press conference was neither his debate disaster nor as underwhelming as his subsequent interview with George Stephanopoulos. However, it was also not dispositive of the doubts about the viability of his continued candidacy that have emerged over the past couple of weeks. So, Democrats still need to focus on which is the lesser of two gambles.
Do they risk that Mr. Biden over the next four months will not have two, three or many “bad nights” that would force voters to double down on their fears as to whether he can effectively fulfill his presidential responsibilities in a second term? Or do the Democrats risk potential chaos in service of a revitalized nomination process?
While the latter path may not lead to success, the former path is all but certain to lead to failure and a new dark age of a second Donald Trump presidency.
The only thing worse than a gamble you lose is one that you never even had a chance of winning in the first place.
Chuck Cutolo
Westbury, N.Y.
The writer worked on Capitol Hill for 17 years, including as legislative director for Senator Carl Levin.
To the Editor:
If the delegates are all in for Joe Biden and he still says he’s running two weeks from now, will Democrats (and the media) stop all of this noise? Or will they continue to whine, handing the election to Donald Trump?
