Editors at the Washington Examiner explain why they believe President Biden should resign.
President Joe Biden has lost the political spotlight to Vice President Kamala Harris, but despite his obvious diminished mental capacity, he still clings to his office, which means that what little he says in public still affects national policy, whether his statements are intentional or not.T
his week, en route to a rare joint appearance with Harris in Maryland, Biden simply answered, “I do,” when asked by a reporter if he agrees with the socialist governments of Colombia and Brazil that Nicolas Maduro’s regime should hold another election in Venezuela, this one not rigged by the government.
Other countries, such as Argentina, have gone further, calling opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia the winner of the July 28 election, a result supported by international observers. The United States has not yet called Gonzalez the winner, but neither has it suggested a new election should be held, until Biden did Thursday.That was the U.S. position, siding with the socialist governments of Colombia and Brazil that a new election is necessary, until the White House walked back Biden’s statement less than an hour later. “The president was speaking to the absurdity of Maduro and his representatives not coming clean about the July 28 elections,” a National Security Council said in the statement. “It is abundantly clear to the majority of the Venezuelan people, the United States, and a growing number of countries that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes on July 28.”
Biden’s Maduro blunder was hardly the first the White House had to correct. When he answered “yes” when a reporter asked him if he was “willing to get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if it comes to that,” the White House had to dash to clean up Biden’s mess and say there was no change in policy and the president misspoke. When Biden claimed Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” after Russia invaded Ukraine, the White House again had to concede that he misspoke and there was no change in policy.
