Biden assures he would consider retiring if a doctor recommended it to him due to health problems USA Elections

Joe Biden assured that he would consider leaving the race for president of the United States due to a health problem. “(I would do so) if a doctor told me that I had this or another problem…”, said the US president in an interview that will be broadcast this Wednesday night local time. The Democrat has stressed that no doctor has told him that he has any condition that would prevent him from remaining in office.

In a conversation with Ed Gordon of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Biden insisted that he made “a serious mistake” in the debate with Donald Trump on June 27, according to excerpts of the interview that have already been broadcast by the network. His disastrous performance that day has prompted his campaign team to try to raise the profile of the president, who has increased the number of interviews, and even held his first lengthy press conference in more than 18 months, with the intention of demonstrating his ability to remain in office. In a recent interview with ABC, Biden said he would only give up fighting for the presidency again if God told him to.

The 81-year-old president acknowledged during the interview to be broadcast this Wednesday that he entered the presidential contest in 2020 as a “transitional candidate” of the Democratic Party, but the context of the country has changed. “I thought I could move on and leave it (the position) to someone else, but I didn’t think the situation in the country would be so divided. Frankly, I think the only thing that age brings is a little more wisdom and I have shown that I know how to get things done,” Biden says in one of the excerpts of the interview that were already released this morning.

The US President assured that he is in good physical condition. This statement is supported by his family physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, who said last February that the 80-year-old politician is a “healthy, active and strong person who maintains good shape to carry out his responsibilities in the presidency.”

Democrats have maintained their plan to nominate Biden in an unusual online process scheduled for August 7. This comes ahead of the convention date of August 19 in Chicago. Initially, the telematic nomination responded to a request from the Republican-controlled Ohio Legislature, which set a deadline to register candidates on the ballot early next month. But this election system has taken on a second meaning after Biden’s poor performance in the Atlanta debate. Twenty congressmen from his party have asked him to quit the White House race and the president’s campaign team is confident that his nomination will silence the criticism and allow the party to close ranks.

Adam Schiff, an influential congressman who is running for a seat in the Senate in November, this Wednesday became the last of the senior Democratic officials to call on Biden to concede defeat. In a statement, Schiff assured that it is time to “pass the torch” and thus guarantee a positive legacy. Schiff, a veteran California legislator, admits, “A second Trump presidency could undermine the foundations of our democracy, and I am seriously concerned that the president could defeat Trump in the November 5 election.”

Biden will court the Latino vote this Wednesday with a speech before the Hispanic organization UnidoUS in the key state of Nevada, where he plans to announce specific measures to improve the educational and economic opportunities of this minority.

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