• il y a 4 mois
"La question n'est plus de savoir si il va se retrier, mais quand..." Toute la soirée, les médias américains ont expliqué que l'on approchait de la fin de la campagne de Joe Biden dont les signes de faiblesse sont de plus en plus visibles. "Nous nous rapprochons de la fin", a même dit une personne présentée par NBC News comme étant proche du président.

Hier, le Washington Post a rapporté que Barack Obama, dont Joe Biden a été le vice-président, avait dit à des proches penser que son ancien acolyte devait "sérieusement évaluer la viabilité de sa candidature". Si l'information devenait officielle, Barack Obama serait le démocrate le plus important à se joindre aux voix exhortant Joe Biden à jeter l'éponge.

Les fuites - anonymes - ne cessent de se multiplier dans les médias américains.

Ainsi les leaders démocrates au Congrès, Chuck Schumer et Hakeem Jeffries, auraient-ils tous deux dit au président lors de rencontres séparées que sa candidature pourrait mettre en péril les chances du parti en novembre. Quant à la très influente Nancy Pelosi, ancienne présidente de la Chambre des représentants, elle a selon le Washington Post dit à des collègues qu'elle pensait que Joe Biden pouvait être convaincu assez rapidement de quitter la course.

Assailli de questions sur son acuité mentale après un débat calamiteux face à Donald Trump, le président américain, Joe Biden, a affirmé, au micro de la chaîne BET, mercredi, qu’il réévaluerait sa candidature si on lui diagnostiquait un problème de santé.
Interrogé sur ce qui pourrait le faire réfléchir à jeter l’éponge, le leader démocrate a répondu :

« Si j’avais un problème médical qui apparaissait, si quelqu’un, des médecins venaient me voir et me disaient : “vous avez tel problème”. »

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00:00Good evening. The U.S. president has tested positive for COVID. It is another blow for
00:05Joe Biden, who is already fighting off Democrat detractors. A new critic registered concerns
00:11today. Further splintering support on the left, while on the right, Republicans are
00:16aligned on a big night at their convention.
00:18CTV's Joy Melvin starts us off.
00:20Battled President Joe Biden on the campaign trail in another crucial swing state, Nevada.
00:28Fighting to keep his job and his party united, now another blow. The president tested positive
00:34for COVID-19. Vaccinated and boosted, Biden is experiencing mild symptoms.
00:40How do you feel?
00:43A runny nose, cough, no fever. And the president was given a dose of Paxlovid. The White House
00:48says he's returning home to Delaware, where he will self-isolate and continue to carry
00:53out his duties fully during that time.
00:56He can't win.
00:57The president was already struggling, as a drip, drip, drip of Democrats called for
01:02him to drop out of the race, saying he's too old, too weak to take on Donald Trump.
01:07Still trying to salvage his candidacy after that disastrous debate, yet another prominent
01:13Democrat, Adam Schiff, fearing a Democratic wipeout, called on Biden to pass the torch.
01:19I think if he's the nominee, we will lose.
01:23In a new interview, Biden was asked what would make him change his mind.
01:26If there was some medical condition that emerged. If somebody, if doctors came to me
01:30and said, you got this problem, that problem.
01:32A letter circulating among party members urges the Democratic National Committee to delay
01:37a virtual roll call that would finalize Biden as the nominee as early as next week. Calls
01:43for him to go had calmed down after former President Donald Trump was nearly killed by
01:48a would-be assassin's bullet. But the campaign ads are back up and running on abortion, branding
01:54Trump and his vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, as extremists.
01:59J.D. Vance. Trump looked for someone he knew would be a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda.
02:06And make no mistake, J.D. Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country.
02:12As Democrats feel more divided, the Republicans have united, a party falling in line after
02:18nearly a decade of infighting over Trump's polarizing politics.
02:23His political rivals all vanquished on the convention floor. It's a bit of a love-in
02:28for the man and his message.
02:30This is our last chance to make America great again.
02:37Trump's brush with death resonating with Republicans confident the race has shifted
02:42in their favor.
02:43It's time to put that flag on your front porch, that red hat on your head. Because we don't
02:51cave and we don't cower and we do not capitulate.
02:55Trump now the great unifier. He and his family will be here tomorrow night, his children,
03:00grandkids, his wife Melania, when he formally accepts the Republican nomination, making
03:05his first public remarks after surviving that assassination attempt.
03:11Morella, Jordan, Milwaukee.

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