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5 Key Takeaways from President Biden’s First Post-Debate Interview

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5 Key Takeaways from President Biden’s First Post-Debate Interview

President Joe Biden spoke to a Milwaukee radio host in his first public interview since his disastrous performance at the Atlanta debate with the former president Donald Trump last week.

Here are five key points from Biden’s interview with the radio host Count Ingram on WAUK-AM (540) on Thursday:

Biden finally admits how bad he was during the debate

In the week since the debate, Biden and his team have made up a bunch of excuses. He had a cold. He was jet-lagged. He was overprepared.

But Biden is now acknowledging what the American public saw with its own eyes on television last week.

“I had a bad night,” Biden told Ingram in the 18-minute interview. “And the fact is, I blew it. I made a mistake.”

Still, he couldn’t help but minimize the significance of his disappointing performance.

“I didn’t have a good debate,” Biden said. “That’s 90 minutes on the stage. Look what I’ve done in 3 1/2 years.”

Biden got what he wanted from Ingram: a softball interview

Look, Ingram is an institution in Milwaukee and the black community. He tells it like he sees it.

But Ingram, who has been in radio for nearly 15 years, is a huge Biden fan. He said he even predicted that President Barack Obama Biden as his vice president.

Ingram closed his show with the words on behalf of Civic Media’s small radio stations: “We support you, we love you, and keep up the good work.”

No wonder Biden’s team chose Ingram for the interview.

This is the second pre-recorded interview Biden has done in Wisconsin. In May, Biden did a pre-recorded interview with Milwaukee’s 101.7 “The Truth” in which he intended to speak directly to Black voters. Trump, it should be noted, sat down for a face-to-face interview with the Sentinel Magazine around the same time.

The president appears to be going nowhere despite calls for him to be removed

One thing became clear during Biden’s interview.

He still hates Trump immensely.

And the incumbent Democrat will do everything he can to defeat his Republican opponent, despite the growing number of Democrats urging Biden to step aside.

“We cannot, cannot, cannot allow this man to win,” Biden said. “It would just be a disaster for America.”

Then he made it more personal: “I have an incredible disdain for everything he stands for.”

Despite the friendly setup, Biden botched one of his favorite Trump attacks

During the interview, the first-term president had everything going for him, but he was still not without flaws.

Early in the interview, it sounded like he was reading a list of his accomplishments. His voice sounded heavy throughout, but it was hard to tell if that was due to the poor sound quality of the recording.

But Biden’s one major mistake came when he accused Trump of once calling service members who died in combat “losers” and “suckers,” as reported by The Atlantic. It’s a common line of attack for Biden.

And yet he messed up.

“This guy is talking about these guys being losers and whiners,” Biden told Ingram. “He has no respect for anybody. I mean it.”

Whiners? Biden even repeated the gaffe.

Trump has repeatedly denied the report.

Biden knew his audience

Ingram has a loyal following within the black community and Biden made it clear he was aware of that.

First, he praised his administration’s recent investments in Wisconsin’s black community and noted his work in appointing black officials, including Vice President Kamala Harris and a justice of the United States Supreme Court Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“I have appointed more Black judges, more Black women judges, than any other president in American history combined,” Biden said.

He then turned the focus on the presumptive Republican nominee, saying he has done nothing for the black community. He also attacked Trump for comments he made recently about “black jobs.”

“This is the man who asked the question George Floyds humanity, led the birther movement against Barack Obama,” Biden said. “This is the guy who said, ‘Barack Obama, that black man, he wasn’t born in America.’ And he kept going, lying like hell.”

He then added of Trump: “He has about as much interest and concern for black minority communities as the man on the moon.”

The man on the moon? Well, it wouldn’t be a Biden interview without at least one Bidenism.

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VaselineJuly 4, 2024

0 3 minutes read

Biden finally admits how bad he was during the debate

Biden got what he wanted from Ingram: a softball interview

The president appears to be going nowhere despite calls for him to be removed

Despite the friendly setup, Biden botched one of his favorite Trump attacks

Biden knew his audience

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