New York Times Editorial Board Urges Biden To Quit Race

Thursday night’s presidential debate mortally wounded President Biden’s political career, and now the New York Times has hammered a significant nail in the coffin — publishing an editorial bluntly declaring that “the greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election.”

With this development, Biden’s departure from November ballots is taking on an air of inevitability.

The Times editorial board wrote that Biden is “engaged in a reckless gamble” with America’s future, saying “it’s too big a bet to simply hope Americans will overlook or discount Mr. Biden’s age and infirmity that they see with their own eyes.”

Here are some more pointed highlights from the NY Times: 

• “Voters cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago.”
• “The president’s performance cannot be written off as a bad night or blamed on a supposed cold, because it affirmed concerns that have been mounting for months or even years.”
• “[Biden] insisted on a date months earlier than any previous general election debate. He understood that he needed to address longstanding public concerns about his mental acuity and that he needed to do so as soon as possible. The truth Mr. Biden needs to confront now is that he failed his own test.”
• “Democrats who have deferred to Mr. Biden must now find the courage to speak plain truths to the party’s leader….The clearest path for Democrats to defeat a candidate defined by his lies is to deal truthfully with the American public: acknowledge that Mr. Biden can’t continue his race.“

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