Biden’s latest attempt to convince everyone he has what it takes to stay in the race will air at 6:30 PM Eastern / 3:30 PM Pacific.

More on where and how to watch here:

https://apnews.com/article/how-to-watch-biden-press-conference-a70590e7574fc9680229b6b6289f6a02

My expectation is that it will be on all the usual sources. CNN, MSNBC, etc. etc. with in depth coverage on the talking head shows later tonight.

Edit Conference is running 20+ 50+ minutes late after already being pushed back 1 hour from 5:30 to 6:30.

Not sure if that’s good news or bad news.

Here we go! 58 minutes late, but he’s on a roll talking about NATO.

Oh, snap! Reminding everyone that Article 5 has only been used once… 9/11.

Speech ran less than 10 minutes, but was a strong speech, now the questions.

Fumbles on the first answer, calling out “Vice President Trump”. :(

Ended after almost an hour with one final question on “Vice President Trump” - Biden’s answer “Listen to him.” End conference.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with how it went!

      • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        4 months ago

        He didn’t.

        And that will be used against him too. Not only did he make the gaffe, he didn’t even realize he made the gaffe.

        (And for the record, it’s sad that voters are holding Biden to a much higher standard than Trump. But here we are.)

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          4 months ago

          Dude.

          It’s sad that this is the standard we’re holding Biden too…

          You know what a momma cat does when it can’t feed all the kittens? It carries the runt off and abandons it

          The Republican party is the runt, we can’t save both and the Dem party has the best chance of surviving.

          Why waste valuable time and effort calling on trump to step down? He’s literally never going to do it and there’s zero chance republicans go against him

          • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
            12·
            4 months ago

            Because the average voter is an idiot and only hearing the Biden dementia stuff makes them more likely to vote for the orange fascist because they haven’t heard nor care about project 2025 and don’t remember their basic elementary school history lessons.

        • Doubletwist@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 months ago

          (And for the record, it’s sad that voters are holding Biden to a much higher standard than Trump. But here we are.)

          Except that’s been the whole point of this exercise from day one!

          The voters on the right have proven that they have NO standards that a candidate needs to live up to, while the voters on the left are the ones who are screaming “we need to have high standards for the people who are going to run the country”

          Until recently, while the left would have preferred an even better candidate, Biden at least just barely fell above the seemingly minimum bar, especially when compared against Trump. But now Biden seems to have fallen right to the cusp of where the voters who still have standards are wondering if he’s fallen below them, and if there’s might be a better option, both from the standpoint of meeting their standards, and the standpoint of actually being able to win against Trump, who MUST lose for our nation to avoid disaster.

        • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          4 months ago

          If you have no intention of ever supporting Trump, it doesn’t matter what he does. It would be nice if the not Trump option wasn’t so similar in age and mental capacity.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          (And for the record, it’s sad that voters are holding Biden to a much higher standard than Trump. But here we are.)

          Trump already fails even lower standards. In fact, I can’t think of any serious standard that Trump doesn’t fail.

          “don’t be a jackass” Fail.

          “don’t be a fascist.” double fail.

          “Be human.” Tripple fail.

          “don’t be a rapist”. fail-tacular.

          “Don’t be a child rapist”… Failing-spree.

          In any case, I think a lot of people are afraid of trump winning- and with very good cause, so Biden has a lot of scrutiny. “I beat him before” doesn’t really hold water. he squeaked that under the wire in four states, any 3 of which flipping would have given it to trump. (PA, AZ, GA, CO,) and plenty of others were pretty damn close, too. Trump has had 4 years to improve his image and energize his base. Biden is less popular than he was in 2020. Anyone whose not worried is gonna have a rude awakening, I think.

        • TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          He’s been a gaffe machine his entire life. I don’t think that’s a sign of an old, decrepit mind, but the sign that the same Biden who referred to his running mate in 2008 as “Barack America” and his running mate’s opponent as “George” (rather than John McCain) is running for President in 2024. I think I like his answer. “You can either watch what I say during a high-pressure interview for 90 minutes, or you can watch what I did for 3.5 years with a staunch opposition throwing out the road blocks every chance they got. But if you vote against me, you get Project 2025. You might want to look that up before you cast your vote.”