Reid J. Epstein reports:
More than two years after his disastrous debate performance prompted a Democratic push to urge him to abandon his re-election campaign, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. declared the debate was “not very consequential.”
Mr. Biden’s assessment, in an interview with People magazine published on Wednesday, runs counter to widely held views of the debate and its aftermath, in which Mr. Biden scrambled for nearly a month to try to convince fellow Democrats he was up for the job of running against Donald J. Trump again in 2024.
“I don’t know anybody who hasn’t made a mistake in a debate,” Mr. Biden, 83, said in the interview. “To me, it was not very consequential. First of all, I thought there’d be another debate, which there wasn’t. But notwithstanding the fact that there wasn’t another debate, it didn’t disturb me because it wasn’t consequential.”
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