In an interview with BET News that aired Wednesday, President Joe Biden suggested he might be willing to step aside if his doctors informed him that he had a serious medical condition. He also appeared to struggle recalling the name of his defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, referring to him only as a “Black man” in an exchange about his commitment to diversity.
Soon after the interview aired, the White House announced that Biden had COVID and would be canceling his next few days of scheduled appearances. The news for the president did not get better from there. The reprieve he enjoyed after a 20-year-old Republican tried to kill former President Donald Trump was shattered by reports that some of the biggest names in his party had privately told him directly to drop out of the race — reports that came the same day that Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., publicly broke with Biden and urged him to “pass the torch.”
