A media 'nervous breakdown'? Calls for Biden's withdrawal produce some extraordinary moments
President Biden's performance in last week's debate with Donald Trump led to some extraordinary media moments
NEW YORK (AP) — If President Joe Biden successfully resists some extraordinary calls in the media to abandon his reelection effort following last week's debate, he may reflect on the moment that MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski looked into the camera Monday to begin a 15-minute essay of support.
The “Morning Joe” co-host denounced the “screaming, mocking, jeering” headlines and editorials suggesting Biden leave the campaign following several halting, confused passages by the president during his CNN debate with former President Donald Trump.
The New York Times editorial board urged Biden's exit, along with some of the newspaper's columnists. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution followed suit in a front-page editorial on Sunday. The New Yorker's editor David Remnick wrote that “there is honor in recognizing the hard demands of the moment.” The Washington Post said it hoped Biden spent the weekend soul-searching.
“It has been a collective nervous breakdown like nothing I've ever seen,” said Chris Whipple, author of “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House.”
