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Today in Focus

Joe Biden and the Democrats’ dilemma

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Since Biden’s poor performance in first TV debate against Donald Trump, his place on the ballot has been under threat. Joan E Greve reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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Today, a pivotal week for Joe Biden,

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Search BT's got your back. back. It's a big week for Joe Biden, the 81-year-old with the biggest job in the world.

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He's welcoming international leaders to a major NATO summit in Washington, marking 75 years of the alliance. He's in the spotlight on the global stage at a very

1:16.0

difficult time for him at home where he's facing calls from senior Democrats and

1:20.3

donors to withdraw from the presidential race.

1:23.0

So the main event for Biden this week is going to come on Thursday when he holds a NATO press conference.

1:30.0

And that will be his first really big opportunity to show that he is up to the task of leading the nation for another four years.

1:37.5

And I think specifically that he can answer questions in an unscripted format in a way that is both very coherent and robust because that is something that people are deeply concerned about right now.

1:48.0

For months, Joan Grieve, a senior political reporter for Guardian U.S. has been watching every move of the

1:54.2

increasingly beleaguered president. One problem that Biden has had in recent

1:58.8

months that could come back to haunt him during this NATO conference is that he has occasionally seemed to mix up

2:05.2

the names of NATO leaders. America's back and meter on from Germany, I mean from France, looked at me and said, said, you know, why, how long you back to at times he has referred to leaders from long in the past even as if they are leading nations like France and Germany today and that has been really concerning for not just Americans

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