{"id":965361,"date":"2024-07-12T04:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965361"},"modified":"2024-07-12T04:04:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T04:04:50","slug":"biden-says-he-is-most-qualified-to-govern-amid-putin-zelenskyy-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/biden-says-he-is-most-qualified-to-govern-amid-putin-zelenskyy-gaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden says he is most qualified to govern amid Putin\/Zelenskyy gaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Joe Biden says he&#8217;s the best qualified to govern and the best qualified to win. Biden was responding to questions from journalists at the <a href=\"http:\/\/&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8yoCy8FYJbU?si=Cld4DBGVNxgEVN57&quot; title=&quot;YouTube video player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\">conclusion of the NATO Summit in Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ShmJBalyUL4?si=BdKBhWkse4COys-v\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With pressure building from quarters within the Democratic Party that he exit the presidential race after his halting debate performance two weeks ago, Biden said he was determined to run.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether last night&#8217;s performance will do enough to stem that rising political tide over concerns about his viability against Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s night was not without gaffes. Before the presser he referred to Ukraine&#8217;s President Zelenskyy as President Putin before catching himself and later, responding to a question about what concerns he may have about Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; ability to beat Trump, he referred to her as Vice President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>But he also gave substantive answers on domestic and foreign policy while at times meandering through his process.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was willing to have a neurological exam if the doctors recommended such but touted his record of accomplishment as proof he was up to the job.<\/p>\n<p>The US President said he believed staying in the race was the best call and that he was not doing this for his legacy but to complete the job he&#8217;d started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the presser he referred to President Zelenskyy as President Putin..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":965362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1277],"tags":[1128,1129,1130,1131],"class_list":["post-965361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-2","tag-closing-of-the-nato-summit","tag-president-joe-biden","tag-speech-gaffes","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}