More major newspapers’ editorial boards join calls for Biden to drop out of 2024 race

A growing number of editorial boards for major newspapers have called on Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 election in the wake of his disastrous performance at the first debate against Donald Trump.

The day after the debate, The New York Times’ editorial board suggested that the president should leave the race “to serve his country,” based on his own argument that Trump presents a serious threat to American democracy.

“At Thursday’s debate, the president needed to convince the American public that he was equal to the formidable demands of the office he is seeking to hold for another term,” the board wrote. “Voters, however, cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr Biden is not the man he was four years ago.”

Writing for The New Yorker, editor David Remnick wrote that Biden would be performing an “act of patriotism” by leaving the race, while remaining would be “an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment.”

He added: “There is no shame in growing old. There is honor in recognizing the hard demands of the moment.”

The Economist’s editorial board wrote that Biden leaving the race would “help rescue America from an emergency.”

The board, which suggested in 2022 that Biden should not run for a second term, wrote that Biden is now “befuddled and incoherent – too infirm, frankly, to cope with another four years in the world’s hardest job.”

The Chicago Tribune’s editorial board wrote “enough.”

Both candidates are “two gnarly old men” and “clowns,” while the Democratic Party has been covering up a reality that they must have seen but clearly wished were otherwise, the board wrote.

The president should announce that he is a single-term president who has “seen the light when it comes to his