ABC News Moves Biden-Stephanopoulos Interview to Friday Primetime

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1. Do or die for Biden probably

2. Good, the only way to counteract the narrative is to show people the narrative is wrong.  He needs more interviews, more press conferences, more events 

3. I just hope it isn’t scripted. Biden shouldn’t know he questions before hand or have access to a teleprompter.

4. They’re gonna get Joe the best amphetamines available and just pray he survives, huh

5. I’m only interested if it’s live and no one cuts the screen

6. Has anyone watched ABC prime time on a Friday night since Full House went off the air 30 years ago?

7. Or… he could just call in a press conference at any time and answer questions live

8. Good move, but without a live interview later in the afternoon, it won’t do much to calm down the problem.

9. It should have been today.

10. Tin foil hat: they are moving this up because he has to say that he’s staying in the race. They know he won’t be so they need more time in between him saying this and him saying he’s dropping out. This gives him the opportunity to drop out next Friday after he’s “deliberated”.

11. I think they moved it up so they’d have the time blocked off when Biden steps aside on Friday.

    Far fetched?

12. The bar will be set so low, if he’s able to string two sentences together, the dnc spin machine will be working overtime to label him the Comeback Kid and Jill will praise him like a 5 year old who just learned to dress himself.

13. “what do you say to people who think you’re too old and senile?”

    “well it’s better than the racist evil guy who hates democracy”

    “welp good enough for me”

    saved you all an hour

14. If the interview is live and somewhat like [this](https://youtu.be/oZFeBHWtgzs), I’ll be happy.

    This is unedited from September.

    Edit:

    If he comes off as legit being borderline going through dementia, then yea I hope we go through a back up plan.

    If he stammers, whatever – he stammers. I stammer because sometimes my mouth moves faster than I think and I legit need to do a quick brain reset.

    Ever since I was a kid.

    But still the democrats have me regardless who is on the ticket.

    I can’t have Trump in office.

    And I’ll say it. If he stammers from time to time and acts like he does in the video above, AND it’s live – we better be behind him.

15. This isn’t the “reset” they think it is and it’s insulting to the voters. Everyone knows an edited interview is not the same as having to defend your record and policies in real time, either against a rival candidate or a pack of interviewers who you can’t ask “can we do that one again?”

    This stubborn old bastard is looking increasingly like a geriatric driver who refuses to give up his license despite his family desperately wishing he stays away from the wheel.

16. An interview with a member of the Clinton Administration isn’t going to convince anyone. If Biden plans to stay in, he needs to be doing televised live town halls on a literally daily basis.

17. Can Trump do an interview without a teleprompter with a hard hitting reporter where he speaks to killing roe and project 2025 and is called out on tariffs, asked why he takes credit for the Obama/Biden choice act, etc?

18. This old man is wasting everyones time and trying to run out the clock. Every second he doesn’t prove he’s there is another second we could have thrown some coconuts out of trees at Trump for Context Kamala

19. I guess his campgain team simply does not understand.

    toothpaste is out of the tube. I feel like it’s so incredibly obvious how to beat Biden, run completely unedited clips of the debate every day unedtied, with the words UNEDITED CLIP FROM THE DEBATE on the bottom of the screen. _BUT TRUMP SAYS INSANE THINGS TOO!_ cool 2016 strategy. Folks have had 8 years to accept the reality that he’s held to a different standard and come up with something rather than just complain.

    this campaign keeps screeching about how not voting for Biden is the end of America (and it could be) but it’s starting to become increasingly apparent that the only people that the Biden campaign staff care about are themselves and their political careers.

    A prerecorded interview? Again for the entire rest of the year you’ll just be hearing Republicans talk about the debate on every major station. Even the ones guesting on MSNBC are going to be hammering on it.

20. If Biden was dead I would vote for his corpse over Trump.

21. Live? I’ll watch. But if it’s edited, then who cares?

    The whole point is to see if he’s grandpa going soft in the head, or capable of sitting across from Putin or Xi.

22. Friday evening is what you do when you typically drop bad news

23. A 15 minute taped interview. Jesus Christ.

24. If this is truly not live what the fuck are we even doing. An unedited transcript is not enough.

25. Lifelong Dem voter. We saw what we saw. A friend of mine who voted for Obama in 2008, Trump in 2016, Biden in 2020, is now not voting.

    THAT is what we are dealing with. This interview will not matter. As many others have stated Biden is not doing daily unscripted interviews and press conferences to make it clear he is not the doddering old man in steep decline that we ALL saw.

    This was not a “bad day”, this was not stammering, this was not a cold, this was not being tired from travel…..

    It is not the already committed Dem voter like myself or Maga that are the issue. Virtually no one who watched that said “Well, I was going to vote for Biden, but now that I see that I’m going to vote for the guy who lied to me for 90 minutes in barely coherent word salad, Trump”

    You get folks like my friend in swing states deciding not to vote.

    Biden stays, Trump wins.

    Also, why would anybody want someone for President who’s having a “bad day” like that when critical and emergent decisions need to be made in time of crisis(cue “his staff and admin” talking point).

    We have been pointing out how horrible Republicans have been for putting party, personality and personal power over the good of the country. Let’s not accept the same behavior from the Dems so that a handful can remain in power fairly unscathed as the country burns because Trump got elected.

    Edit: I would love to discuss I REALLY REALLY want to be wrong.

26. Kudos to ABC ! This week the SCOTUS might give Biden a win . They messed up big just like with Roe vs Wade

27. Bold strategy Cotton

28. A measly 15 minute interview (non-live) is more gaslighting. Biden has done NOTHING in the six days since his disastrous debate to dispel the correct narrative he is infirm/impaired to the point even children can spot he is incapable of beating Trump. 72% of the public want a new candidate according the the latest poll, FFS!

    This man’s ego is gonna screw us all!

29. Fuck this. Do a presser. Biden’s been the LEAST visible president since Reagan’s second term and it’s due to the same reason. But the dems won’t do the right thing because they’re as shameless as the pubs are at this point.