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Calls for Biden to step aside and allow a stronger candidate to compete are growing louder by the day*.

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PT*

a
A fragilidade de Joe Biden é cada vez mais evidente.

b
É cada vez mais evidente. Fragilidade pessoal, física, se quisermos, e a fragilidade eleitoral, até porque a primeira amplia largamente esta segunda.

O debate da semana passada foi devastador para o presidente dos Estados Unidos. Falta de vigor, por vezes algumas ideias desconexas, e claramente sem ferramentas para tentar contrariar o discurso e as mentiras recorrentes de Donald Trump.

Os ecos desta prestação no debate não se fizeram esperar e foram muitos os apelos, logo nas primeiras horas após o debate, para que Biden abandone esta corrida para dar lugar a outro candidato dos democratas.

* Small edits may have been made to improve reading comprehension and flow.

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a
Joe Biden’s fragility is increasingly evident.

b
It’s becoming more and more obvious. Personal fragility, physical if you like, and electoral fragility, not least because the former greatly magnifies the latter.

Last week’s debate was devastating for the President of the United States. Lacking vigor, at times some disjointed ideas, and clearly lacking the tools to try to counter Donald Trump’s recurring discourse and lies.

The echoes of this performance in the debate were not long in coming and there were many calls, in the first hours after the debate, for Biden to abandon this race to make way for another Democratic candidate.

* Observador podcasts, “Ainda Bem Que Faz Essa Pergunta,” ep. Jul 01, 2024