Morning Jolt: Biden Meets the Press and Largely Avoids Drooling on Himself

WITH JIM GERAGHTY

July 12 2024

Biden Meets the Press and Largely Avoids Drooling on Himself

On the menu today: Joe Biden meets the press and hangs around for a while. It was bad by normal standards, pretty good by Joe Biden standards — but it may be moot, as apparently large numbers of congressional Democrats are ready to publicly call on Biden to end his reelection bid. Meanwhile, an eye-popping report from NBC News indicates that some of the people who are most eager to see Biden leave the presidential race are . . . employed by the Biden campaign. Read on.

Biden's Underwhelming Press Conference

The lone silver lining to turning in the worst presidential debate performance in U.S. history is that it really lowers the bar for all subsequent appearances. So yes, by any measure, at his press conference Thursday night, Biden was "better than he was in the debate."

The bad news for Joe Biden is that "pretty good by Joe Biden standards" is still pretty darn far from a normal "pretty good." There's a lot of space between debate-level ...

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