Quote:ABC News has pushed forward the release of its crucial interview with President Biden as pressure mounts on the 81-year-old POTUS to prove that he can stay in the 20204 race following a catastrophic debate performance last week.

Biden is set to speak to anchor George Stephanopoulos early Friday, with the Disney-owned network originally saying it planned to release the taped interview in dribs and drabs before showing the full thing on Sunday.

Now, the entire pre-taped interview will air as a primetime special at 8 p.m. on Friday. A preview of the interview will be released earlier on “World News Tonight with David Muir,” with airs at 6:30 p.m.

ABC News also said it would release a full transcript of the unedited interview on Friday.

Biden, who will be 86 if he finishes a second term in January 2029, gave such a dismal performance during the debate that even some are now Democrats unsure of his fitness for office and future as the party’s candidate.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Biden has admitted to a friend that he might have to drop out if he can’t get his campaign back on track in the coming days.

The ABC interview — despite being a taped appearance — will give voters their first chance to see Biden speak at length since the debate, where he gave several rambling, incoherent answers and appeared to lose his train of thought entirely on one of the first questions.

The president and his aides attributed his lackluster performance to him having a cold and jet lag from two trips earlier this month — depsite spending a week preparing at Camp David.

Biden’s interviewer, Stephanopoulos, is a veteran ABC News host who started his career as a communications director for Bill Clinton’s campaign, and later in the Clinton White House.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle have complained publicly and privately that the Biden Administration hasn’t done enough to prove the president’s competency for another term — with some members of his own party even calling for Vice President Kamala Harris to step in and take over the role.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pronounced Harris as Biden’s political heir Wednesday, at one point referring to her as “president,” when asked about his 2020 campaign remark that he would be a “transitional” candidate.

“One of the reasons why he picked the vice president, President [sic] Kamala Harris, is because she is indeed the future of the party,” Jean-Pierre said at her regular briefing.

Harris, 59, would face stiff competition for the Democratic presidential nomination, including from Govs. Gavin Newsom of California, 56, and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, 52, if Biden were to resign.

Despite some calls for Biden to step aside, most members of his party have continued to support the president in public, including a group of Democratic governors who met with him at the White House on Wednesday.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, one of Biden’s only gubernatorial allies to speak outside the West Wing, said that all of the attendees pledged to support Biden, at least in private, in the wake of his disastrous Thursday debate performance.

“We came together tonight to listen to President Biden to tell us, in his own words, what his plans were. I’m here to tell you today President Joe Biden is in it to win it. And all of us said we pledged our support to him because the skates could not be higher,” Hochul said.

“We talked about how we transitioned under a monarchy and a tyranny that our Founding Fathers fought against and that we risk right now descending back into that very same place. We will stand with the president as we fight that force that force — that force being Donald Trump.”

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Jesus, at least format the damn thing.

(07-04-2024 02:38 PM)fsquid Wrote:  Jesus, at least format the damn thing.

No one twisted your arm and made you read it.

(07-04-2024 02:41 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(07-04-2024 02:38 PM)fsquid Wrote:  Jesus, at least format the damn thing.

No one twisted your arm and made you read it.

Neither one happened

Biden could deliver a Gettysburg Address and people are still going to remember the debate. He's toast. I predict they'll go with Whitmer, who won Michigan - an important swing state - by double digits and would secure the women's vote. Passing over Harris would create another dilemma though.

(07-04-2024 06:15 PM)HCJag Wrote:  Biden could deliver a Gettysburg Address and people are still going to remember the debate. He's toast. I predict they'll go with Whitmer, who won Michigan - an important swing state - by double digits and would secure the women's vote. Passing over Harris would create another dilemma though.

Wonder how she'd feel about a White Woman?

Let them run whoever they can get, it won't matter. They have damaged their brand so badly this time it may be years before they recover. Then again, never under-estimate the stupidity of the democrat base.

(07-04-2024 06:21 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  Let them run whoever they can get, it won't matter. They have damaged their brand so badly this time it may be years before they recover. Then again, never under-estimate the stupidity of the democrat base.

You vastly overestimate the intelligence of the American people.

We know that ABC News generally, and George Stephanopoulos personally, are dedicated to making sure that Trump loses the election. So this interview will be a key indicator if the media has given up on Biden and is trying to push him out — in which case the questions will be tough and Biden’s answers will be unedited — or is the media trying to prop him up and help drag him over the finish line — in which case the questions may seem tough on the surface but really won’t be, and the weak/lame answers will not be shown to the public. I’m honestly not sure which it will be.

(07-04-2024 07:11 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  We know that ABC News generally, and George Stephanopoulos personally, are dedicated to making sure that Trump loses the election. So this interview will be a key indicator if the media has given up on Biden and is trying to push him out — in which case the questions will be tough and Biden’s answers will be unedited — or is the media trying to prop him up and help drag him over the finish line — in which case the questions may seem tough on the surface but really won’t be, and the weak/lame answers will not be shown to the public. I’m honestly not sure which it will be.

Exactly. How much will they edit to hide his bad moments? How much will they show?

(07-04-2024 07:17 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(07-04-2024 07:11 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  We know that ABC News generally, and George Stephanopoulos personally, are dedicated to making sure that Trump loses the election. So this interview will be a key indicator if the media has given up on Biden and is trying to push him out — in which case the questions will be tough and Biden’s answers will be unedited — or is the media trying to prop him up and help drag him over the finish line — in which case the questions may seem tough on the surface but really won’t be, and the weak/lame answers will not be shown to the public. I’m honestly not sure which it will be.

Exactly. How much will they edit to hide his bad moments? How much will they show?

It all depends if they still think Biden is the Dems’ best bet for November. If they are trying to set the stage for a different nominee, then this will be just as ugly and brutal as the debate last week. But if they are trying to set the stage for Biden’s “comeback” then the public will be shown a carefully choreographed dialogue to portray Biden as “in command”, etc.

The fact that they are not showing the interview live, and also that they are apparently taping the interview in the late morning, suggests that they are still trying to help Biden. But we shall see.

(07-04-2024 07:17 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(07-04-2024 07:11 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  We know that ABC News generally, and George Stephanopoulos personally, are dedicated to making sure that Trump loses the election. So this interview will be a key indicator if the media has given up on Biden and is trying to push him out — in which case the questions will be tough and Biden’s answers will be unedited — or is the media trying to prop him up and help drag him over the finish line — in which case the questions may seem tough on the surface but really won’t be, and the weak/lame answers will not be shown to the public. I’m honestly not sure which it will be.

Exactly. How much will they edit to hide his bad moments? How much will they show?

I doubt there will really be any bad moments. I’m sure the questions will be softballs that Biden will be well aware of before he’s asked. Any goodwill he builds up here (if any) will disappear after the next debate, if not sooner.

I'm sure this "interview" will be as cringy as a Kamala space lesson to kids.

(07-04-2024 06:19 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

(07-04-2024 06:15 PM)HCJag Wrote:  Biden could deliver a Gettysburg Address and people are still going to remember the debate. He's toast. I predict they'll go with Whitmer, who won Michigan - an important swing state - by double digits and would secure the women's vote. Passing over Harris would create another dilemma though.

Wonder how she'd feel about a White Woman?

I like listening to Stephen A even though I don’t always agree with him I can see his point.

First off, I don’t watch basketball men or women. Sounds like he’s butthurt over a white woman who has became very popular.

I personally think she’s popular because she is white making her an anomaly.

Never seen him complaining about Tiger Woods another anomaly garnering attention in golf or Serena Williams yet another anomaly being doted over in tennis.

His argument here is clown worthy and attempting to say it mirrors society is just foolish.

He lives in a bubble.? Mayve he should actually visit folks in the outskirts before he paints his broad brush of misinformation

The whole Biden interview will be a snoozer.

Unedited script released. Yeah go tell that LIE to MSM Lackeys.

Anyone with a brain already knows how your game is played

No interest here

"Now, the entire pre-taped interview will air as a primetime special at 8 p.m. on Friday. A preview of the interview will be released earlier on “World News Tonight with David Muir,” with airs at 6:30 p.m."


hmmm, interesting...why tape it and not run it live? Could it be because they can change a lot of the things he says and how he looks saying them?

Anyone who has dealt with a family member in cognitive decline has heard the phrase “good days and bad days.”

Who knows? Maybe for Biden, this will be a good day.