After the historic debate in which Joe Biden was swept away by an emboldened Donald Trump, the media, even those close to the Democratic Party, have begun to pressure the current president of the United States not to run as a candidate in the next electoral elections.

The newspaper ‘The New York Times’ has asked US President Joe Biden in an editorial this Friday to abandon the electoral race to remain in the White House after the Democrat gave a highly questioned performance in Thursday’s debate against to Donald Trump.

‘To serve his country, President Biden should drop out of the race’headlines the editorial in which the prestigious newspaper assures that “the greatest public service that Mr. Biden can provide now is to announce that he will not continue running for re-election.”

Biden’s performance in the face-to-face with the Republican politician left the image of a candidate weakened by the age factor and in which he hesitated on several occasions, He uttered disjointed sentences and entered inaccurate data.

“Mr. Biden’s weakness”

“It is too big a gamble to simply expect Americans to overlook or dismiss Mr. Biden’s age and weakness.“, the headline stresses, showing that their request to the Democratic candidate is not a compliment to Trump, but quite the opposite; they consider him a common enemy.

Indeed, The New York Times called Biden “an admirable president” under whose leadership the US “has prospered and begun to address a number of long-term challenges.”

The ‘Times’ agrees with this that the return of Donald Trump (2017-2021) to the Oval Office would entail a “danger“that would compromise “the future of American democracy” and could carry out “its most extreme promises and threats.”

“He is not the man he was”

However, according to the New York newspaper, Biden “is no longer the man he was four years ago” and during Thursday’s debate, he failed to “convince the American public that he was up to the formidable demands.”

They also recalled that this performance cannot be dismissed as a “bad night” or blamed on a “cold”, even though “it was Biden himself who challenged Trump to this verbal duel”, so he should be replaced.

“Calling for a new Democratic candidate at this stage of the campaign is a decision not taken lightly, but it reflects the magnitude and gravity of Trump’s challenge (…) Biden’s inability to meet him,” says the editorial of the media outlet chaired by Meredith Kopit Levien.

Attacks on Trump

For the aforementioned medium, in the Democratic ranks There are leaders who better embody “a clear, convincing and energetic alternative” to a second Trump presidency, although they did not venture to name names: “There is no reason for the party to risk the stability and security of the country.”

The newspaper also repeatedly attacked Trump in its editorial, calling him “an erratic, self-serving figure unworthy of public trust,” a “malignant deformity,” and a “candidate defined by his lies.”

“It is a tragedy that the Republicans themselves do not do a deeper soul-searching after the debate (…) He lied blatantly and repeatedly about his own actions, his record as president and his opponent,” argued The New York Times.