NY Times Editorial Board Doubles Down On Its Call for Biden to Step Aside: He’s ‘Continued to Appear As a Man in Decline’

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President Joe Biden’s campaign to reassure voters concerned about his cognitive state has fallen flat with at least one major media entity.

In a searing column published late Monday, the New York Times Editorial Board reiterated its call for the president to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. The board criticized Biden’s “scripted and controlled schedule” in the days following his disastrous June 27 debate against former President Donald Trump.

“Mr. Biden, instead of campaigning vigorously to disprove doubts and demonstrate that he can beat Mr. Trump, has maintained a scripted and controlled schedule of public appearances,” the editorial board wrote. “He has largely avoided taking questions from voters or journalists — the kinds of interactions that reveal his limitations and caused him so much trouble on the debate stage. And when he has cast aside his teleprompter, most notably during a 22-minute interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Friday, he has continued to appear as a man in decline.”

The Times’ editorial board first called for Biden to quit on June 28 — hours after the debate. In their original column, they called the president’s decision to remain in the race “a reckless gamble.” In their follow-up piece, they sounded a similar note.

“President Biden clearly understands the stakes,” the editorial board wrote. “But he seems to have lost track of his own role in this national drama. As the situation has become more dire, he has come to regard himself as indispensable. He does not seem to understand that he is now the problem — and that the best hope for Democrats to retain the White House is for him to step aside.”