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Trump 2024 national press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticizes First Lady Jill Biden, accusing her of “elder abuse” in relation to her husband President Joe Biden’s mental acuity decline.
Leavitt argues that the majority of the public shares concerns over Biden’s capabilities, contrasting with Jill Biden’s support for her husband post-debate.
“The majority of the American public agree with that. Jill Biden doesn’t because, I guess, she doesn’t want to be a loving wife and go take care of her husband in Delaware, which is what she should be doing,” Leavitt said.
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“And I think the media, it’s time for them to finally step up after they’ve been complicit in this cover-up by the Democrat Party over the last four years and ask really tough questions of Jill Biden and of the Biden family about what they know about our president’s state. Clearly, Jill Biden obviously knows her husband better than anyone else in this country, in this world, and she too continues to lie to the American people. It really is shameful. She’s been engaging in elder abuse, and she should be held accountable for that,” Leavitt added.
Despite criticisms of Biden’s performance and calls to withdraw from the 2024 contest, President Biden remains committed to continuing his campaign, with his team emphasizing moving forward from the debate and preparing for upcoming events.
“Joe, you did such a great job! You answered every question, you knew all the facts!” Jill Biden told the President.
“And let me ask the crowd. “What did Trump do?” she added. “Lie!”
“Lot of questions for the Biden campaign. What are you hearing from the Biden team, Kayla?” CNN’s John Berman asked.
“Well, John, the Biden team as of this moment plans to pack up what few wins they had on the debate stage last night. You’ve already seen some of those packaged and posted on social media, and to move on and focus on what’s coming down the pike,” CNN’s Kayla Tausche said.
“There are no plans, I’m told, for the president to drop out of the race and even further, I’m told that the president is still committed to a second debate in September, which is currently scheduled for September 10 and hosted by ABC News, much along the lines of the rules of the debate that was hosted last night,” Tausche added.
“Now, the adviser that I spoke with said that they’re not putting too much stock in the conversation last night, and that many of the staffers on the campaign and in the White House also worked on President Obama’s reelection in 2012. And they tried to draw the parallel to that first debate. That was a very low performance for President Obama, even he would call it a stinker. And they said that if you had believed the pundits in the wake of that debate, Mitt Romney would be president, would have been president after that,” she added.
“But of course, the big difference is in the wake of that debate, no one in Obama’s own party was calling for him to resign the office of president. And that is the moment that Democrats find themselves in right now. The mood that I’m hearing from Democrats who are texting this morning is described as fatalistic behind the scenes,” she said.
Tausche added, “And while we’ve seen some of these public pronouncements from members of the president’s own party, there is still so much consternation about what happens next and whether the performance aspect of last night can even be fixed going forward. Because if not, that September debate is likely just to be a repeat of what we saw on stage last night, putting Democrats in the same position they’re in right now, even closer to Election Day. That being said, Biden himself did not seem to be fazed by it.”
