JOE BIDEN: "Alone on stage! They'll grill him!" US President under extreme pressure!

JOE BIDEN: "Alone on stage! They'll grill him!" US President under extreme pressure!
In the debate about the mental and physical health of US President Joe Biden, support for the 81-year-old continues to crumble. On Wednesday (local time), Peter Welch became the first Democratic senator to publicly call on Biden to drop out of the race for the White House. Hollywood star George Clooney, a key supporter of Biden's Democrats, also called on the 81-year-old to withdraw from the election campaign. The US President himself appeared combative at the NATO summit.
"For the good of the country, I urge President Biden to withdraw from the race," Welch, a senator from Vermont, said in an opinion piece in the Washington Post. He is the first Democratic senator to do so explicitly.
The news portal Axios reported that the Democratic majority leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, is ready to consider another candidacy. The Democratic senators are scheduled to meet with close advisers of Biden on Thursday. In the House of Representatives, the other chamber of the US Congress, at least eight Democratic representatives have called on Biden to drop out of the race for the White House.
Former Democratic House Speaker Pelosi - still a heavyweight in the party - told MSNBC that the president must decide whether to run. "We all encourage him to make that decision because time is running out," she added. However, Biden should wait to make a final decision until the end of the NATO summit currently taking place in Washington.
Pelosi had already said shortly after the debate that it was "legitimate" to wonder whether Biden's weak TV appearance was just an "episode" or a permanent condition.
During the TV debate with his challenger Donald Trump, Biden spoke with a hoarse voice, repeatedly tangled up his phrasing and left sentences unfinished. Since then, the 81-year-old, oldest president in US history, has been faced with an ever-growing debate about his physical and mental suitability for the presidency.
Even among prominent Biden advocates, support for the 81-year-old is crumbling. Hollywood star Clooney called on Biden to withdraw from the election campaign in a guest article for the New York Times on Wednesday.
"I love Joe Biden," wrote Clooney, who hosted a celebrity fundraising gala with Biden in Los Angeles last month. "But the one battle he can't win is against time." The Biden at the fundraising gala was not the Biden of 2010, or even the Biden of 2020. "It was the same man we all saw at the debate."
Leading Democrats must "ask this president to voluntarily resign," Clooney continued. It's about age, "nothing else," the actor emphasized.
Despite the criticism, Biden himself says he is "firmly determined" to stay in the race for the presidential election in November. At the start of the NATO summit in Washington, he appeared combative. In his speech on the 75th anniversary of the military alliance, the US president spoke energetically and largely without slip-ups - although, unlike the TV debate, he read the speech from a teleprompter.
The real public test of Biden's mental robustness will not come until the last day of the summit on Thursday, when he will hold one of his rare press conferences. At the event, Biden will have to speak freely and spontaneously and without the help of a teleprompter. On Monday, Biden also plans to give an interview to NBC.
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