DNC host city's major newspaper calls second Biden term ‘a ridiculous idea’; urges him to drop out of race

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As the aftermath of the first 2024 presidential debate settles, The Chicago Tribune, based in the host city for the Democratic National Convention, is pleading for President Biden to drop out of the race.

"Biden was an encapsulation of what many Americans have come to know very well as they care for aged parents, partners, friends, grandparents and colleagues: a man now struggling to maintain a line of thought and keep track of complex facts, a man who gets flustered under deadline pressure, a man who has become vulnerable and yet, at the same time, far less self-aware," the editorial board of The Tribune wrote.

The editorial added that everyone now sees a second-term for President Biden as "a ridiculous idea," writing that Biden should "be a single-term president who now has seen the light when it comes to his own capabilities in the face of the singular demands of being the President of the United States."

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They continued to cast an even darker shadow over the intentions of the Biden Administration, writing that the White House "painted a picture of fictional cognitive vitality" of the 46th president’s current cerebral capability, and that they "have been covering up a reality that they must have seen."

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom,