Bernie Sanders Urges Support for Biden’s Candidacy Amid Withdraw Requests
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, a prominent figure of the US political left, on Saturday urged support to the current US president and candidate for the re-election Joe Biden despite requests for him to withdraw over mental health concerns.
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Sanders’ opinion comes amid steadily growing calls from Democratic officials and donors for the 81-year-old Biden to step aside following his disastrous performance on June 27 debate with former president Donald Trump. So far, some 20 members of Congress have called for him to leave the presidential race.
“Despite my disagreements with him on particular issues, he has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump,” wrote Sanders on a New York Times opinion column.
Sanders recognized his disagreements with Biden’s Israel’s genocide support, Health care system ideas, which Sanders says “broken, dysfunctional and wildly expensive and needs to be replaced with a “Medicare for all””.
Recently at least 18 House of Representatives Democrats have publicly called on Biden to resign his candidacy for the November 5 election because they believe he has no chance of beating Trump.
“Mr. Biden is old, is prone to gaffes, walks stiffly and had a disastrous debate with Mr. Trump. But this I also know: A presidential election is not an entertainment contest. It does not begin or end with a 90-minute debate,” said the Senator on favor of the president.
Sanders claimed that Biden may not be the ideal candidate, but he “will be the candidate and should be the candidate”, and added that Trump wants to let multinational corporations get away with exploiting workers and ripping off consumers.
Biden told the press conference after the NATO summit that there is no poll to show that he cannot beat the Republican, although his participation in the summit was overshadowed by two lapses: he confused the Ukrainian president, Volodymir Zelenski, with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and called Trump his vice president, Kamala Harris.
On the other hand, the editorial board of the US The Washington Post, one of the most influential media in the country, insisted on Friday to the president, Joe Biden, to withdraw from the Democratic candidacy to the elections next November.
The Atlantic or The New Yorker have also joined an editorial published by The New York Times asking Biden to withdraw from the race for reelection in which said that the biggest public service Biden can do right now is to announce that he will no longer run for re-election.