‘Almost fell asleep’ during debate with Trump: Joe Biden

President of the United States Joe Biden admitted on Tuesday that his performance during last Thursday’s presidential debate was not the best, but blamed sleep disturbances from two foreign trips in early June.

Republican candidate last week Donald Trump After a poor performance in a debate with Joe Biden, he is facing fierce questions, and a fellow Democrat in the House of Representatives publicly called on him to withdraw from the presidential race on Tuesday.

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Speaking at a campaign event in McLean, Virginia on Tuesday evening, Joe Biden admitted that his debate with Republican rival and former President Donald Trump did not go well.

Joe Biden, speaking on the campaign trail without the aid of a teleprompter, said: ‘It wasn’t my best night, but the fact is you know I wasn’t very alert. I decided to travel around the world a couple of times, crossing about 100 time zones. Before the debate.’

He said, ‘I didn’t listen to my crew and came back and almost fell asleep on stage. This is not an excuse but an explanation.’

Joe Biden visited France and Italy on two separate trips over two weeks last month. He traveled overnight from the Group of Seven summit in Bari, Italy, to attend a fundraising event with former President Barack Obama in Los Angeles on June 15 and then returned to Washington the next day.

He then spent six days at Camp David preparing for the June 27 debate.

White House officials have blamed poor health for Biden’s poor performance during the debate, but Joe Biden did not mention being ill during a fundraiser on Tuesday.

A new Reuters/IPSOS poll out on Tuesday shows that one in three Democrats think Joe Biden should give up his re-election bid after the debate, but against Trump. In a hypothetical contest, no elected Democrat could do better than Biden.

Trump, 78, and Biden, 81, both have 40 percent of registered voters, according to two-day polls, indicating that the debate did not dent Joe Biden’s support. of America Presidential elections Five will be on November 2024.