Wednesday, July 10, 2024

How soon can we get a replacement?

President Joe Biden canceled an early evening meeting with the German chancellor Olaf Scholz at the last minute because he had to go to bed, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

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In a statement to the Journal, a spokesperson for the State Department denied the report, while another official stated that the White House had informed the participants early on that Biden would be unable to attend.

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Axios, citing people close to the president, has previously said that Biden worked best between the 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. window and struggled to function outside that timeframe.

The Journal report said that the White House has consistently reduced Biden's daily schedule and shielded him from impromptu meetings.

Both CNN and The New York Times have reported that Biden told governors he needed to get more sleep and stop holding events after 8 p.m. The White House has not responded to these claims.
  MSN
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 11:25 am:

“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal‘ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” Clooney wrote.

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“We love to talk about how the Republican Party has ceded all power, and all of the traits that made it so formidable with Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, to a single person who seeks to hold on to the presidency, and yet most of our members of Congress are opting to wait and see if the dam breaks,” Clooney said.

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“We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate,” he said, citing “the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor” that he said he had spoken with privately.

  The Hill

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