US President Joe Biden will consider his candidacy in the presidential election campaign if a doctor tells him his health requires it.
This is what Biden says in an interview with BET News according to The New York Times.
“If I had a medical condition that arose, or if someone, if the doctors came and said ‘you have such and such a problem'”, says the president.
The statement comes on the heels of a direct question to Biden about what might make him reconsider his bid for re-election in the Nov. 5 election.
This is evident from a short transcript of part of the interview.
White House physician Kevin O’Connor wrote after the president’s health examination in February that Biden ‘is a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old man who continues to be able to perform his duties as president satisfactorily,’ writes the New York Times .
The president’s health, age and fitness have been intensely debated since he delivered a hesitant and, in the eyes of many, weak performance in a televised debate against his Republican challenger, Donald Trump, barely three weeks ago.
About 20 members of the House of Representatives have called on Biden to give way to another candidate.
So have several donors and supporters of the party, including Hollywood star George Clooney.
In an interview with ABC News earlier in July, Biden said that only ‘God Almighty’ could make him withdraw from the presidential campaign.
During a press conference the following week, Biden said he would continue to run for president unless his advisers came to him with evidence that he would not be able to win the election.
On the same day, he got the names of several politicians mixed up.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was introduced as Vladimir Putin, and Biden’s Vice President Kamala Harris he referred to as Donald Trump.
Biden stuttered as a child and throughout his political career has mixed up names and misspoke.
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Source: politiken.dk
