President Biden’s highly anticipated interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos did little to reassure Democrats who fear he is too old and too incapable to carry the party through the November election and defeat former President Trump.

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Fast Facts

•  President Biden continues to face pressure from Democrats to drop out of the 2024 presidential election following his disastrous debate performance against former President Trump 
•  Democratic Party officials, editorial writers and pundits have expressed concerns about his age and mental acuity, citing his halting delivery, raspy voice and verbal stumbles during the debate 
•  A growing number of Democratic elected officials are publicly saying Biden should step aside and let Vice President Kamala Harris, or someone else, accept the Democratic nomination 
•  Biden told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that only the “Lord Almighty” could convince him to exit the race 

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Stephanopoulos warns Biden not to ‘play the crowd game’ with Trump

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a post-debate campaign rally on June 28, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos warned President Biden not to “play the crowd game” with former President Trump after Biden pointed to his rallies when asked for his plan to turn his presidential campaign around. 

Here’s the transcript: 

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: What’s your plan to turn the campaign around?

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: You saw it today. How many– how many people draw crowds like I did today? Find me more enthusiastic than today? Huh?

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: I mean, have– I don’t think you wanna play the crowd game. Donald Trump can draw big crowds. There’s no question about that.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: He can draw a big crowd, but what does he say? Who– who does he have? I’m the guy supposedly in trouble. We raised $38 million within four days after this. Over– we have over a million individual contributors, individual contributors. That– that’s less than 200 bucks. We have– I mean, I’m not seen what you’re– you’re proposing.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You haven’t seen the– the fall-off in the polls? You haven’t seen the reports of discontent in the Democratic Party, House Democrats, Senate Democrats?

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I’ve seen it from the press.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, I’ve heard from dozens of your supporters over the last few days, and a variety of views, I grant you that. But the prevailing sentiment is this. They love you, and they will be forever grateful to you for defeating Donald Trump in 2020.

They think you’ve done a great job as president, a lot of the successes you outlined. But they are worried about you and the country. And they don’t think you can win. They want you to go with grace, and they will cheer you if you do. What do you say to that?

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I say the vast majority are not where that– those folks are. I don’t doubt there are some folks there. Have you ever seen a group– ta– time when elected officials running for office aren’t little worried? Have you ever seen that? I’ve not. Same thing happened in 2020. “Oh, Biden, I don’t know. Man, what’s he gonna do? He may bring me down, he may …”

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Mr. President, I’ve never seen a President 36% approval get re-elected.

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: Well, I don’t believe that’s my approval rating. That’s not what our polls show.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And if you stay in and Trump is elected and everything you’re warning about comes to pass, how will you feel in January?

PRESIDENT BIDEN: I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that’s what this is about. Look, George. Think of it this way. You’ve heard me say this before. I think the United States and the world is at an inflection point when the things that happen in the next several years are gonna determine what the next six, seven decades are gonna be like.

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Parkinson’s disease specialist met with President Biden’s physician in White House

US President Joe Biden walks to deliver remarks on the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling at the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC on July 1, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

A top neurologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center met with President Biden’s physician at the White House earlier this year, White House records show.

Dr. Kevin Cannard, a Parkinson’s disease expert, met with Dr. Kevin O’Connor and two others at the White House residence clinic on Jan. 17, records first reported by the New York Post show. The report comes as the 81-year-old president faces increased scrutiny over his age and mental acuity in the wake of a halting and stumbling debate performance on June 27 in Atlanta. 

Dr. John E. Atwood, a cardiologist are Walter Reed, also attended the 5 p.m. meeting, according to White House visitor logs. 

The fourth person in attendance has not been identified. The meeting happened on the same day Biden was at the White House and hosted House and Senate leaders to discuss Ukraine funding, the president’s schedule shows. 

O’Connor said Biden was “fit to serve” as president after performing a physical examination in February. 

“President Biden remains a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency,” the physician said at the time. 

Biden’s physical included a neurological exam which specifically ruled out Parkinson’s disease, O’Connor said. 

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Jason Chaffetz: Biden can’t even remember if he watched the debate

In a special edition of “The Ingraham Angle,” Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz took President Biden to task for failing to remember if he watched a tape of the CNN Presidential Debate in his interview on ABC.

“If the president thinks it’s going to squelch the concerns about his mental and physical, prowess, it—that isn’t going to do it,” Chaffetz said, reviewing Biden’s interview in his opening monologue. 

Biden told ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos that he had a “bad night” on the debate stage, but vowed to keep running for re-election even as Democratic Party officials and editorial writers have urged him to step aside in favor of a younger, more capable candidate.

“He can’t even remember if he watched a tape of his own debate? He wasn’t quite sure? And after six plus days, he’s there at Camp David taking all this rest, and then says, ‘oh, he has a cold.’ Then why’d you go to the Waffle House afterwards and start spreading that cold to everybody? This is not going to do a single thing to assuage any concerns,” Chaffetz said. 

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Americans have been ‘lied to for 4 years’: RNC spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko

Republican National Committee spokeswoman Elizabeth Pipko said that White House handlers have lied to the American people about President Biden’s mental condition and fitness for office in an interview Friday on “The Ingraham Angle.” 

“Honestly, my heart goes out, not just to Joe Biden, who is clearly not fit for this job or for running for president, my heart goes out to the American people, right? I mean, they’re watching this, learning that they’ve been lied to for nearly four years now by this administration, by Joe Biden, and by their Democrat leaders. They’re learning that they’re actually not the priority, right, for the next four months. We know that the priority is going to be beating Donald Trump, not serving the American people,” Pipko said. 

Pipko made those comments after Biden sat down for an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that focused on the president’s mental acuity and capability to beat Trump in the wake of his disastrous debate performance and calls from Democrats that Biden step aside. 

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1 hour(s) ago

Liberal ‘Atlantic’ journalist demands Biden ‘must resign’ immediately, hand power to Harris

A new article from liberal outlet The Atlantic called on President Biden to abandon his re-election campaign and resign from office for the sake of saving American democracy.

The piece, written by Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer on Wednesday, demanded that Biden abdicate his office, making Vice President Kamala Harris president, as the recent debate raised questions about his mental decline.

“Biden must resign … to give American democracy its best chance of surviving,” Serwer wrote.

Like many other media pieces criticizing Biden’s June 27 debate performance against former President Trump, Serwer argued that it “confirmed that he has aged dramatically over the past four years.”

“Biden was very old to begin with, and at the debate he appeared far more visibly diminished than he has in the past,” he wrote. Serwer acknowledged that it may have just been a bad night, but said Biden’s team hasn’t dismissed those concerns.

“Now, perhaps it really was just a bad night, and Biden remains as sharp as he was in 2020. If that’s the case, then he should be able to make the kind of public appearances necessary to quell these complaints. If he proves himself capable of doing so, I’ll happily acknowledge error. But after a week of disastrous coverage about his mental fitness, he has not. That is unavoidably ominous.”

Serwer added that Biden’s debate was the one chance to calm “fears about his age rather than confirming them,” especially since he’s been “behind in the polls prior to the debate.”

Fox News Digital’s Gabriel Hays contributed to this update.

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House Republicans say they aren’t sweating Kamala as possible Biden replacement

House Republicans are already sharpening their attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris as public discussions swell over whether she will replace President Biden at the top of Democrats’ 2024 ticket.

GOP lawmakers — in both safe red seats and swing districts being targeted by the left — dismissed Harris as a political threat to their chances in November, arguing she’s still tied to the same progressive Biden policies they believe are unpopular with voters.

Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., who served as longtime chair of the New York Republican Party before coming to Congress, told Fox News Digital, “Kamala Harris is just as responsible for this administration’s failures, but she’s more incompetent.”

“She will make no difference to the outcome. President Trump will be our 47th,” he said.

A swing-seat Republican who asked not to be named told Fox News Digital they were skeptical Harris would do better on the debate stage than Biden. 

“I would say she’s the weakest part of the ticket right now, as bad as Biden is,” that GOP lawmaker said.

“Whether it’s Joe Biden or [Harris] at the top of the ticket, they’ll have to defend their abysmal, tax-and-spend record,” said Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla. “We’re already seeing significant Republican advantages across the board in swing states, especially increase in support from Hispanic voters.”

Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., a Trump ally from a deep red district, told Fox News Digital that Biden and Harris “both own the same disastrous policies.”

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this update.

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ABC News panel says Biden interview won’t ‘calm the nerves’ of ‘jittery Democrats’

The ABC News panel had some choice words for President Biden following his primetime interview with anchor George Stephanopoulos Friday.

“Look, Biden looked better and certainly more coherent than he looked during the debate, but there’s nothing in this interview that is calming nerves of jittery Democrats who fear that Joe Biden is on a trajectory to lose this race, to lose to Donald Trump,” ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl told Stephanopoulos after the interview. 

“In fact, for some of those people, the interview is raising new concerns, particularly the fact that he is unwilling or unaware of the fact that he is in a dire situation here regarding the campaign, that he is losing, in the view of many Democrats and frankly in the polls you cited, that he is losing to Donald Trump,” he said.

Karl added it was “alarming” when Biden said he would be content with a hypothetical defeat against former President Trump as long as he as he “gave it [his] all,” telling Stephanopoulos that a Biden ally reacted to him with a “wow.”

“The bottom line here: there was nothing in this interview that will force Joe Biden out of the race… but there’s also nothing in this interview that will calm the nerves of Democrats who are saying it’s time for him to get out,” Karl added. 

ABC News chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz said those Democrats she had texted insisted the interview “wasn’t as bad as they expected,” but added, “That’s a pretty low bar.”

The network’s congressional correspondent Rachel Scott told Stephanopoulos after hearing from Democratic lawmakers, they’re concerned that while the “dam hasn’t broken tonight,” “the bleeding has not stopped, either.”

“Another Democrat telling me, ‘Better, but not sure that is enough,’ that they need more than one interview, more than 22 minutes to prove that the president has the stamina to continue in this race and defeat Donald Trump,” Scott said before adding that the “movement” trying to remove Biden as the Democratic nominee “is growing.”

Raddatz concluded the panel by pointing to Biden’s default response, “Watch me,” when asked about his age, stressing that aging “is not like a broken bone. It doesn’t get better.”