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Query: What’s one factor that former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama have in frequent?

Reply: Each of President Biden’s two most quick predecessors within the White Home suffered from damaging ballot numbers on the eve of their first midterm elections in workplace and each noticed their celebration lose management of the Home of Representatives.

In November 2010, Obama’s approval ranking was underwater by 4 factors because the Republicans rode a robust Tea Celebration fueled purple wave to flip the Home with an enormous 63-seat web achieve, the biggest shift of seats in additional than 60 years. 

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Quick-forward eight years and Trump’s approval ranking was underwater by practically 10 factors on the eve of the 2018 midterms, when the Democrats stormed again to reclaim the Home majority because of a 41-seat pickup.

President Biden pronounces a ban on Russian oil imports, toughening the toll on Russia’s financial system in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022, within the Roosevelt Room on the White Home in Washington. (AP Picture/Andrew Harnik)
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Quick-forward once more 4 years to current day and Biden finds himself in comparable damaging territory.

The president stands at 45% approval and 54% disapproval within the newest Fox Information nationwide ballot, and common all the newest surveys gauging Biden’s standing that was compiled by Actual Clear Politics places him at 41%-53%.

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Midterm elections are sometimes a referendum on the president and his document in workplace, and the presidential approval ranking has lengthy been a key barometer forward of midterm contests. And that spells hassle for Democrats, who’re attempting to defend their razor-thin majorities within the Home and Senate in November’s elections.

With simply over seven months to go till Individuals vote, Fox Information reached out to some Democratic strategists and consultants for his or her recommendation on how the president can pump up his numbers to assist his celebration on the poll field.

Longtime Democratic advisor Invoice Burton pinpointed a messaging drawback for the president, telling Fox Information that “President Biden has been a transformative chief at an important time for our nation and nearly no Individuals realize it.”

“Getting the phrase on the market about what the president did to raise up the financial system and get our nation out of the depths of the coronavirus pandemic is absolutely necessary,” Burton, a veteran of Obama’s 2008 presidential marketing campaign and the Obama White Home, emphasised.

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Democratic strategist Chris Moyer informed Fox Information that Biden “ought to get out to locations with crucial races and promote, promote, promote.”

The variety of Individuals submitting jobless claims plunged final week to their lowest ranges in additional than half a century, and wages are hovering. However the extraordinarily constructive financial metrics are being vastly overshadowed by skyrocketing inflation, together with traditionally excessive fuel costs.

Signage with fuel prices at a Shell gas station in Hercules, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. jumped above $4 a gallon for the first time since 2008 in a clear sign of the energy inflation that hurt consumers since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Signage with gas costs at a Shell fuel station in Hercules, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. The typical worth of gasoline within the U.S. jumped above $4 a gallon for the primary time since 2008 in a transparent signal of the vitality inflation that damage shoppers since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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Moyer, a veteran of quite a few Democratic presidential and statewide campaigns, emphasised that “the president ought to do all the things he can to deliver fuel costs down, which may embrace a federal fuel tax vacation.”

Longtime Democratic advisor Jesse Ferguson supplied that “there’s clear proof that the financial system’s getting again up off the mat and Democrats need to be relentless in telling that story. When folks can get jobs if they need and receives a commission extra in the event that they work, it is clear we are able to inform the story of an financial system that is not but fastened, however not floundering.”

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“As a lot as folks really feel very actual nervousness, they need to see that Democrats are stabilizing issues whereas Republicans would make the worst fears of this nervousness come true,” Ferguson, who served a number of excursions of responsibility on the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee, emphasised. “Democrats cannot promise lullabies, however simply present that individuals can get a very good evening’s sleep once more whereas Republicans would deliver all their nightmares to life.”

Biden’s approval ranking hovered within the low to mid 50s throughout his first six months within the White Home. However the president’s numbers began sagging in August in the wake of Biden’s a lot criticized dealing with of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan and following a surge in COVID-19 instances final summer season amongst primarily unvaccinated folks as a result of Delta variant.

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The plunge within the president’s approval, which continued final autumn and into the winter, was additionally closely fueled by the leap in client costs and to a lesser diploma the surge over the previous 12 months of migrants attempting to cross into the U.S. alongside the southern border with Mexico.

FILE PHOTO: A group of asylum seekers from Mexico, Cuba and Haiti are detained by U.S. Border Patrol in San Luis, Arizona, U.S., April 19, 2021.

FILE PHOTO: A gaggle of asylum seekers from Mexico, Cuba and Haiti are detained by U.S. Border Patrol in San Luis, Arizona, U.S., April 19, 2021.
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There’s continued trigger for concern when you get previous the highest strains within the surveys. Biden’s approval on most main points – together with the financial system – are additionally properly underwater, and he’s seen deterioration with key voting blocs that helped to place him within the White Home within the 2020 election.

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“Who is aware of what the world seems like come the autumn, however we should always anticipate the financial system and getting inflation underneath management will nonetheless be prime of thoughts for voters,” Lucas Meyer, a New Hampshire primarily based Democratic advisor and activist, famous. 

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Meyer urged spotlighting a brand new proposal by the president that was unveiled Monday within the administration’s 2023 finances blueprint to tax America’s billionaires, saying “it may possibly assist the Democrats get on the offensive to handle each points.”

“This could solely apply to a small fraction of individuals whose family wealth exceeds $100 million, and many of the income would come from Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg. That is fully a commonsense and very talked-about proposal that merely asks the super-wealthy – whose wealth has ballooned in the course of the pandemic thoughts you – to pay a tax charge nearer to what firefighters, academics, nurses, and small enterprise house owners pay,” Meyer famous.

President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington as Vice President Kamala Harris and House speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., applaud. (Julia Nikhinson/Pool via AP)

President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union deal with to a joint session of Congress on the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington as Vice President Kamala Harris and Home speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., applaud. (Julia Nikhinson/Pool through AP)
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California primarily based progressive advisor Michael Cesaro pointed to Biden’s March 1 State of the Union Deal with – which was dominated by Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine – and frightened that “Democrats are in hassle of the State of the Union is a prelude to what we as Democrats are going to deal with.”

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Cesaro, a veteran of the 2008 Obama marketing campaign, Sen. Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential run, and now-Transportation Secy. Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 White Home bid, urged that the president “kick off the election season by bringing non legacy organizations collectively that concentrate on legal justice, voter rights, schooling, well being care and reproductive justice. And ask them what he can do for them.”

And he urged Biden to “cease pandering to contained in the beltway organizations who’ve little affect in electoral politics and for the love of god, again slowly away from the White male rural solely technique or else we’re going to lose in 2022 and 2024.”

However Cesaro additionally emphasised that the president can’t fumble the ball abroad.”

Longtime Iowa primarily based Democratic and communications advisor Jeff Hyperlink additionally pointed to Russian chief Vladimir Putin’s lethal assault on Ukraine, urging that Biden “hold the allied forces robust in opposition to Putin.”  

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Hyperlink, a veteran of quite a few presidential and statewide campaigns, additionally urged the president to “get infrastructure cash out the door shortly.”

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The New Yorker editor calls for Biden to step down after 'antagonizing' debate performance

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The New Yorker magazine has joined other major publications in calling for President Biden to step aside after its editor said watching Biden perform during Thursday’s debate was an “agonizing experience.”

The New Yorker is now the third publication, alongside The New York Times and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, to call upon Biden to step-aside for a younger Democratic nominee.

“We have long known that Biden, no matter what issue you might take with one policy or another, is no longer a fluid or effective communicator of those policies,” The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick, wrote.

“Asked about his decline, the Biden communications team and his understandably protective surrogates and advisers would deliver responses to journalists that sounded an awful lot like what we all, sooner or later, tell acquaintances when asked about aging parents: they have good days and bad days,” he wrote.

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President Joe Biden looks on as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections with former US President and presumed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

Remnick wrote that watching Biden “wander into senselessness” moved observers to “pity” and “fear for the country.”

“Watching Thursday’s debate, observing Biden wander into senselessness onstage, was an agonizing experience, and it is bound to obliterate forever all those vague and qualified descriptions from White House insiders about good days and bad days,” he said.

“You watched it, and, on the most basic human level, you could only feel pity for the man and, more, fear for the country.”

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President Biden, shown here with wife Dr. Jill Biden, faced presumed Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump, in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign season last week. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Remnick made his remarks despite defensive comments from Biden’s loyalists, like former President Obama, First Lady Jill Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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“Such loyalty can be excused, at least momentarily,” he wrote. “They did what they felt they had to do to fend off an immediate implosion of Biden’s campaign, a potentially irreversible cratering of his poll numbers, an evaporation of his fund-raising, and the looming threat of Trump Redux.”

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President Joe Biden stands at his podium during the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections between himself and former president Donald Trump at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The New Yorker editor said that Biden staying in the race would be in direct opposition to his years of public service.

“To stay in the race would be pure vanity, uncharacteristic of someone whom most have come to view as decent and devoted to public service,” Remnick wrote.

“To stay in the race, at this post-debate point, would also suggest that it is impossible to imagine a more vital ticket,” he wrote.

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Remnick concluded his piece by noting that there “is no shame in growing old” but rather there would be “honor” to step down and out of the race.

“It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. There is no shame in growing old,” he wrote. “There is honor in recognizing the hard demands of the moment.”

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President Biden and former President Trump are facing off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign. (Getty Images)

The New Yorker article came after the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The New York Times called for him to drop out of the race.

“Mr. Biden has said that he is the candidate with the best chance of taking on this threat of tyranny and defeating it,” The Times said. “His argument rests largely on the fact that he beat Mr. Trump in 2020. That is no longer a sufficient rationale for why Mr. Biden should be the Democratic nominee this year.”

“Mr. Biden answered an urgent question on Thursday night. It was not the answer that he and his supporters were hoping for,” the Times concluded. “But if the risk of a second Trump term is as great as he says it is — and we agree with him that the danger is enormous — then his dedication to this country leaves him and his party only one choice.”

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President Joe Biden walks off with first lady Jill Biden following the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.  (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Following the debate, Democrats and liberal media figures were reportedly in “panic” after Biden’s performance.

The optics led to a full-on meltdown in Democrat-friendly media, with journalists at various outlets reporting on dozens of Democratic Party officials who said the 81-year-old Biden should consider refusing his party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention.

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Biden gave no indication he would step down at his first rally following the debate Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina, insisting he is capable of beating Trump. 

“I can do this job, because, quite frankly, the stakes are too high,” Biden energetically said. “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation.” 

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This combination of pictures created on October 22, 2020 shows US President Donald Trump (L) and Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22, 2020. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

President Biden also addressed his stumbling performance, saying, “I don’t debate as well as I used to.”

“I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done,” he told a roaring crowd that chanted “Four more years.”

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Column: After Biden's debate fiasco, Harris or Newsom could be Plan B

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As pressure mounts on President Biden to quit his reelection race after a shockingly dismal debate performance, the spotlight will turn more intensely on two Californians: Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom.

And although California won’t matter in the November election — whoever is the Democratic nominee will easily carry the state — its huge delegation to the party’s national convention in August could play a decisive role in choosing a Biden replacement.

Harris would top the initial list of possible substitutes with Newsom close behind.

But Harris, 59, has been less popular than Biden, according to polls. And she’s widely considered a drag on the ticket. One fear of many voters is that if Biden, 81, didn’t last out his second term, he’d be replaced as president by Harris.

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The former California attorney general looked sharp, however, in a post-debate interview on CNN. And although I’ve long been a critic, I got the feeling while watching her that she might not be a campaign disaster after all.

In fact, Harris might perform well on the stump. Drop the robotic script and be more spontaneous. She certainly would be a more competitive debater against Republican Donald Trump than the weak Biden.

Harris showed genuine conviction — a look she usually lacks — in pitching Biden’s policies. She tried to put the best face on his debate performance.

“Yes, there was a slow start. That’s obvious to everyone,” she said. “But it was a strong finish.”

Well, no it wasn’t, but he did improve — after badly damaging himself, probably beyond repair.

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One Harris hurdle, however, is that party leaders remember she bombed running for president in 2020.

Then there’s Newsom, 56.

If Newsom ever wants to run for president — and he acts like he does — now may be his best opportunity, assuming Biden can be coaxed out. There’s persistent speculation about him running in 2028. But he’s in the limelight now and there could be a Democratic incumbent seeking reelection in four years.

Newsom is already warmed up. The two-term governor has been promoting himself nationally while attacking red state policies and playing the role of an enthusiastic Biden surrogate. He has a veteran campaign organization.

Roger Strassburg wears a cowboy hat as he watches Thursday’s debate between President Biden and former President Trump in Scottsdale, Ariz.

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But Newsom would need to compete for the nomination against Harris, his old San Francisco ally. And he has said publicly he wouldn’t do that. If he did, he’d be considered a party pariah, especially among Black women, Newsom has said privately.

Actually, I’ve never thought that a California Democrat could be elected president in this era of hardened polarization. Our politics are just too leftist for most of America.

Newsom has Hollywood looks and oratorical skills. But his biggest political asset — being California governor — is also his biggest vulnerability.

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One strength that both Harris and Newsom have, however, is that California’s delegation will be by far the largest at the Democratic convention. Presumably it would back a California candidate.

The 496-member slate will field 22% of the votes needed to win the nomination. So if Biden leaves the race, California could play a big role in choosing his successor.

Who else is a possibility? For starters, two governors of key battleground states: Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania. There’s also Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

There’s no perfect candidate. But Trump is thoroughly imperfect.

Biden loyalists and lethargic naysayers have contended for months that it’s too late to change horses while the presidential race is underway, especially now that it has neared the final lap. Nonsense.

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Conventions were invented to fight over nominations. But smoke-filled rooms unfortunately got a bad name and the Democratic Party went overboard on reforms. And the conventions became boring television shows that fewer people watched.

Republicans had the last convention battle in 1976 when they nominated President Ford over Californian Ronald Reagan. Ford then was beaten by Democrat Jimmy Carter. The last good Democratic brawl was in 1972 when the California delegation propelled George McGovern into the nomination. He was pummeled by President Nixon, a native Californian.

So convention battles sometimes backfire on a party. But this year could be different.

A Democratic donnybrook could stir new interest in the party and wake up the slumbering base that keeps telling pollsters it wants a president much younger than the 81-year-old incumbent.

Political leaders have a bad habit of plugging their ears when the public is saying things they don’t want to hear.

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Voters aren’t satisfied with either of their choices. Trump, 78, seems healthier than Biden, at least physically. But Trump’s a pathological liar. “The morals of an alley cat,” Biden told him during the debate.

The voters’ anxiety about Biden’s ability to adequately serve a second term was re-stoked in his halting, hoarse-voiced, awkward performance. He seemed to lose his train of thought at least once and had trouble finishing sentences.

It was the worst presidential debate performance ever.

President Reagan blew his first debate against Democrat Walter Mondale in 1984, raising concerns about his age at 73. But he wasn’t nearly as painful to watch as Biden. Reagan fully recovered in a second debate.

Even if Biden’s decision-making is sound, people perceive him as weak. And that means he’d have difficulty leading the country.

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If Trump’s election really would endanger democracy, as Biden contends, then the president should step aside to give the party a better chance of defeating the unfit jerk. He’ll naturally resist that. But those he trusts should level with him and push.

“You don’t turn your back [on someone] after one performance,” Newsom told a TV interviewer. “What kind of party does that?”

A winning party that prioritizes its principles and the nation.

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial board calls for Biden to drop out 'for the good of the nation'

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is calling for President Biden to step out of the presidential election after his debate debacle on Thursday night.

The AJC Editorial Board is publishing a front page editorial Sunday arguing that Biden should bow out of the election “for the good” of the country and to defeat former President Trump.

“The shade of retirement is now necessary for President Biden,” the board wrote.

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An Axios report explained that Americans were so shocked by Biden’s debate performance because they’re more used to seeing a more competent version of him. (Getty Images)

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Biden, they argued, failed to convey a “competent and coherent vision for the future of America” at the first presidential debate in Atlanta on Thursday.

“He failed to outline the most fundamental aspects of his platform,” they wrote. “He failed to take credit for the significant accomplishments of his 3½ years in office. And he failed to counter the prevarications of an opponent, who, according to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale, lied 30 times during the course of the debate, approximately once every 90 seconds of his allotted time.”

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President Biden and former President Trump participate in the first Presidential Debate at CNN Studios in Atlanta, Thursday. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

AJC said that responses by Biden surrogates, former President Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris as well as the cover-up attempt by aides that the president had a cold were “insulting to the American people.”

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Biden’s age and mental acuity was a concern only heightened by Trump’s resolve, the newspaper argued.

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“President Biden’s ability to withstand the mental and physical rigors of another four-year term would be of concern regardless of his opponent,” they wrote. “The fact that he is all that stands in the way of Trump returning to the Oval Office significantly raises the stakes.”

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President Biden looks on as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections in Atlanta on Thursday. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

The editorial board pointed to Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s refusal to support the former president as proof of Trump’s “egregious” personal and professional conduct following the 2020 election.

“That Trump remains at the top of the Republican ticket is a testament to the deep divisions and tribalism that has come to define American politics in the 21st century,” they wrote.

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President Biden stands at a debate podium in Atlanta, Thursday. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The board encouraged Biden to pass the torch to the next generation of Democratic leaders at the convention in August.

“If he truly hopes to defeat Trump, he must pass the torch to the next generation of Democratic leaders and urge the party to nominate another candidate at its convention in Chicago in August,” they wrote. “Doing this will require a massive and unprecedented string of legal and regulatory actions to get a Biden successor named and placed on each state’s ballot. This is difficult and necessary work that must start immediately.”

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The right Democratic leader, they argued, would move forward and make a compelling appeal to both Republican and Democratic voters ahead of the election.

“The Democrats have a number of talented and principled leaders who might take the president’s agenda forward and provide the nation with a viable alternative to Trump,” they wrote. “The right candidate would make it a priority to appeal to Republican and Democratic voters.”

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President Biden and first lady Jill Biden leave the debate stage Thursday in Atlanta. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The board said that Biden’s very candidacy was “grounded in his incumbency and the belief of Democratic leaders and pollsters that he stood the best chance of defeating Trump in November.”

“This is no longer the case,” they said.

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The Atlanta-based newspaper board said that while this may be difficult for some Democrats to swallow, it is the truth.

“Biden deserves a better exit from public life than the one he endured when he shuffled off the stage Thursday night,” they said.

“If he displays the courage and dignity that have defined his political career, he might follow in the footsteps of the nation’s first president and welcome his retirement, secure in the knowledge that he again served his country with honor,” the board ended.

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People watch the 2024 presidential debate between former President Trump and President Biden in New York City, Thursday. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The AJC Editorial Board’s call for Biden to step down comes just one day after The New York Times called for him to drop out of the race.

“Mr. Biden has said that he is the candidate with the best chance of taking on this threat of tyranny and defeating it,” The Times said. “His argument rests largely on the fact that he beat Mr. Trump in 2020. That is no longer a sufficient rationale for why Mr. Biden should be the Democratic nominee this year.”

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“Mr. Biden answered an urgent question on Thursday night. It was not the answer that he and his supporters were hoping for,” the Times concluded. “But if the risk of a second Trump term is as great as he says it is — and we agree with him that the danger is enormous — then his dedication to this country leaves him and his party only one choice.”

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at a campaign event in Raleigh, N.C., Friday. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

Following the debate, Democrats and liberal media figures were reportedly in “panic” after Biden’s performance.

The optics led to a full-on meltdown in Democrat-friendly media, with journalists at various outlets reporting on dozens of Democratic Party officials who said the 81-year-old Biden should consider refusing his party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention.

BIDEN’S INNER CIRCLE SILENT AS PARTY REELS FOLLOWING ‘EMBARRASSING’ DEBATE PERFORMANCE 

Biden gave no indication he would step down at his first rally following the debate Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina, insisting he is capable of beating Trump. 

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“I can do this job, because, quite frankly, the stakes are too high,” Biden energetically said. “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation.” 

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President Biden speaks at a post-debate campaign rally Friday in Raleigh, N.C. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

President Biden also addressed his stumbling performance, saying, “I don’t debate as well as I used to.”

“I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done,” he told a roaring crowd that chanted “Four more years.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Biden campaign for comment.

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