One thing that was interesting is that CNN anchor Jake
Tapper,
who moderated that debate, said that Biden did little to
reassure voters that he's the man for the job after
that Morning Joe interview we just mentioned.
What do you think he could do to accomplish that?
Is there anything that President Biden could do to convince
voters that might be feeling nervous that he is the
man for the job and he is mentally fit to
keep going for another four years?
Yeah, certainly. I think that's sort of the biggest question
moving forward.
You know, we've seen the president in recent days try
to sort of get out there more.
He held a couple unscripted campaign events in Pennsylvania over
the weekend,
as you mentioned. He sat for that ABC interview with
George Stephanopoulos.
He called into Morning Joe for an unscripted interview.
He he called into a donor call with organized by
his campaign.
He met with Congressional Black Caucus members.
So clearly there is a very concerted effort from the
White House to put the president out there.
To have him talking directly to some of these folks,
lawmakers, donors, etc, to try to both reassure them and
to make clear to them that he's not going anywhere.
He's not standing aside willingly as the nominee.
But the question is whether that's enough.
And I think that's sort of what we're seeing from
some of these Democrats who raised concerns about the president's
ability to beat Donald Trump at the ballot box in
November, is they say he needs to show that he
can do more.
To campaign aggressively, but they're not laying out any specifics
of what that might look like,
so. Again, as I said earlier,
you know, time is sort of on the president's side
here where he can continue to hold some of these
appearances,
not have any major stumbles or major gaffes that might
be enough to keep him atop the ticket,
even if it doesn't totally reassure voters.