{"id":1475468,"date":"2024-07-05T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1475468"},"modified":"2024-07-05T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:25:00","slug":"its-just-my-brain-biden-defends-health-as-dem-governors-call-for-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/its-just-my-brain-biden-defends-health-as-dem-governors-call-for-resignation\/1475468\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s Just My Brain&#8221;: Biden Defends Health As Dem. Governors Call For Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8220;It&#8217;s Just My Brain&#8221;: Biden Defends Health As Dem. Governors Call For Resignation<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/its-just-my-brain-biden-defends-health-as-dem-governors-call-for-resignation\/\">Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The <em>New York Times<\/em> published a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/6lSB2#selection-5045.0-5045.204\">bombshell scoop<\/a> Thursday, signaling the end is near for President Joe Biden as an increasing number of Democrats are abandoning ship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/AP24180097086768-e1719643231812_80.jpg?itok=WyMibksm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Times\u2019s<\/em> Thursday piece detailed a meeting Biden had with <a href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/tag\/democrats\">Democratic<\/a> governors, where he told them he needs to get more sleep and work fewer hours, including curtailing events after 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>He described his extensive foreign travel in the weeks before the debate,<\/strong> something that the <a href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/tag\/white-house\">White House<\/a> and his allies have in recent days cited as the reason for his halting performance during the debate,\u201d the <em>Times<\/em> reported, citing unnamed sources who were in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cInitially, Mr. Biden\u2019s campaign blamed a cold, putting out word about midway through the debate amid a series of social media posts questioning why Mr. Biden was struggling<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most shocking part of the article was Biden\u2019s defense of his health. <strong>He reportedly told the governors that \u201cit\u2019s just my brain.\u201d<\/strong> Some governors reportedly took the comment as a joke, but others weren\u2019t so sure.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Biden apparently didn\u2019t convince the governors that he should still be running.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMultiple governors who participated in the meeting expressed dismay afterward that there had been little debate about whether Mr. Biden should continue his <a href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/tag\/2024-election\">2024 presidential<\/a> campaign,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Gov.<a href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/tag\/jared-polis\"> Jared Polis<\/a>, for example, reportedly told Biden in the meeting that he\u2019s received a groundswell of wishes from various people that Biden would end his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Maine and New Mexico\u2019s governors also voiced concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Mills said that people didn\u2019t think Mr. Biden was up to running, and Ms. Lujan Grisham said she was worried that the president could lose her state,\u201d the Times added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all that negative feedback, Biden seems intent on remaining in the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that Mr. Biden began the conversation with the governors by declaring that he was continuing on left some participants feeling that <strong>any further discussion about the state of play was chilled<\/strong>,\u201d the Times reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jd_cashless\"><em>twitter.com\/jd_cashless<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 07\/05\/2024 &#8211; 12:25<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/its-just-my-brain-biden-defends-health-dem-governors-call-resignation\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/its-just-my-brain-biden-defends-health-dem-governors-call-resignation<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s Just My Brain&#8221;: Biden Defends Health As Dem. 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