{"id":34750,"date":"2024-07-09T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=34750"},"modified":"2024-07-09T13:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T20:29:03","slug":"pressure-on-biden-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/07\/09\/pressure-on-biden-builds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure on Biden builds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
July 7, 2024 \u2022 (newsletter@email.businessinsider.com)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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with Matt Turner<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a>Win McNamee\/Getty Images; iStock; Rebecca Zisser\/BIDispatch

Pressure on Biden builds<\/strong>

US President Joe Biden had a\u00a0terrible debate<\/a>. He\u2019s done little to turn things around since and appears to be\u00a0in denial over the damage done<\/a>\u00a0to his campaign.\u00a0That\u2019s the story of a critical 10-day period in the US presidential race, which kicked off with Biden\u2019s historically bad debate performance.\u00a0\u00a0Biden\u2019s poor performance led to a\u00a0Democrat freak out<\/a>\u00a0and growing\u00a0calls for Biden to step aside<\/a>. In a sign of the public mood, BI\u2019s list of the\u00a0Democrats who could replace Biden<\/a>\u00a0saw a sudden and dramatic spike in readership shortly after the debate.\u00a0In the days since, there have been\u00a0excuses<\/a>, new\u00a0Biden flubs<\/a>, and fresh calls from\u00a0donors<\/a>\u00a0and House Democrats for Biden to step down. Republican rival Donald Trump has been\u00a0posting furiously on social media<\/a>\u00a0throughout.\u00a0\u00a0Biden remains defiant. In a\u00a0Friday interview<\/a>\u00a0with ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos, he dismissed his low approval rating and questioned\u00a0polling data<\/a>\u00a0that shows Trump is growing his lead in the race.\u00a0Crucially, Biden said that\u00a0only God could get him to drop out<\/a>, and that\u00a0he\u2019d be OK with losing<\/a>\u00a0to Trump \u201cas long as I give it my all.\u201d\u00a0Neither sentiment is likely to satisfy the many Democrats who have serious concerns about Biden\u2019s mental acuity and electability.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 7, 2024 \u2022 (newsletter@email.businessinsider.com) with Matt Turner Win McNamee\/Getty Images; iStock; Rebecca Zisser\/BIDispatch Pressure on Biden builds US President Joe Biden had a\u00a0terrible debate. He\u2019s done little to turn things around since and appears to be\u00a0in denial over the damage done\u00a0to his campaign.\u00a0That\u2019s the story of a critical 10-day… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34752,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34750\/revisions\/34752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}