By Ashleigh Fields
After the June 27 presidential debate, viewers grew concerned with President Joe Biden’s ability to fulfill his duties as commander-in-chief for a second term. In response, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), Wes Moore (D-MD), and Tim Walz (D-MI) met at the White House on July 3 to discuss Biden’s future as the Democratic nominee. Afterward, the group of three pledged their unwavering support to Biden. Moore, the nation’s sole Black governor, said the choice for November was clear after the meeting. “The president is our nominee, the president is our party leader and he told us back there that he is in this to win this,” Moore shared. “For the people who are concerned, I just want to be very clear, come November we’ve got a binary choice,” he later added. “The binary choice is between someone who has continually delivered for us, our states, and the people of our states and someone whose vision for the future of our country is downright dangerous.”
Walz (D) was the first to speak in favor of the president after the meeting. “Obviously we, like many Americans, are worried because of the threat of a Trump presidency. It’s not theoretical for Governors, we’ve served when Donald Trump was president. And the threats to our nation were real,” Walz explained. He compared the two leaders in terms of their ethics and morale. “A Trump presidency was chaos destruction, a Biden presidency was dealing with COVID, using the science, investing in infrastructure, and working to the middle class,” Walz continued. The other representatives agreed, denying claims about the president’s mental state. “We feel very confident in his abilities, we talked about the plan and how he’s going to be very focused on issues that matter to Americans, and I felt very confident coming out of this meeting,” Hochul shared.
Over the past few months, the Biden-Harris campaign has worked to ease the minds of voters. A week after the debate screened, Biden was interviewed by ABC’s George Stephanopolus, Earl Ingram of Civic Media Network, and Andrea Lawful-Sanders on WURD’s The Source in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s only Black-owned talk radio station. Lawful-Sanders admitted questions were planted by the Biden Harris campaign. Once the news broke, campaign staff said they would no longer suggest questions to interviewers. Sara Lomax, president and CEO of the Philadelphia-based station released a statement mentioning the act, “violates our practice of remaining an independent media outlet accountable to our listeners.” As Biden continues to campaign, he is using one slogan to describe an honest character. “I know I’m not a young man. I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know — I know how to tell the truth,’ the president has continually professed after the debate.
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Stacy M. Brown is an NNPA Newswire Correspondent