‘s first solo live press conference of the year is about to begin and the stakes couldn’t be higher. After a June 27 debate to prove the president is still mentally fit to run the country didn’t go so well, and then a July 5 ABC News interview to prove he’s still mentally fit to run the country went kinda-OK-but-not-really, now there’s Thursday’s live press conference to prove ..
. well, you know (watch the press conference video below, it starts at 6:30 p.m.
ET, and we’ll add some quoted highlights and commentary). It’s hard to imagine one presser — which some have condescendingly dubbed a “big boy press conference — turning things around for the embattled president. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s briefings have affairs as the press corps increasingly suspect the White House hasn’t exactly been honest about many of the things they’ve said the past few years regarding Biden’s health, along with their claimed reasons for Biden’s increasingly strict stage managed public appearances (wait, you mean Biden didn’t turn down the traditional Super Bowl interview which reaches 120 million Americans during an election year because “ “?).
It’s not too strong to suggest the fate of Biden’s presidency might hang on the next hour, which is extraordinary, surreal and depressing all at once. Question: What is a faithful Democrat supposed to be rooting for here? Does one want Biden to give an increasingly all-too-rare strong public performance to.