President Biden opened the door just a crack on potentially dropping out of the race.
After having said earlier this month that it would take word from “the Lord Almighty” to make him leave the race, Mr. Biden downgraded the source Wednesday to an M.D.
Asked in an interview with BET what would make him re-evaluate his insistence that he will be on the ballot in November, he replied “if I had some medical condition that emerged.”
“If doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” he added, according to a clip released by the network Wednesday afternoon.
The interview will air starting at 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Mr. Biden has faced a progressively louder gaggle of Democratic lawmakers, intellectuals and fundraisers saying he should drop out since his disastrous debate performance last month.
The 81-year-old president has made several public appearance since in an ongoing campaign to calm concerns about his mental acuity, including Wednesday’s BET interview. But each new appearance has provided additional moments of mental failure for his critics within and outside his party.
• Victor Morton can be reached at vmorton@washingtontimes.com.
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