{"id":106237,"date":"2024-07-02T21:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/president-joe-biden-to-sit-down-with-abc-news-on-friday-for-first-tv-interview-since-debate\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T21:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T21:04:10","slug":"president-joe-biden-to-sit-down-with-abc-news-on-friday-for-first-tv-interview-since-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/president-joe-biden-to-sit-down-with-abc-news-on-friday-for-first-tv-interview-since-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"President Joe Biden to sit down with ABC News on Friday for first TV interview since debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-02\/GettyImages_Biden_070224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Cornell Watson\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; President Joe Biden will sit down with ABC News on Friday for his first television interview since last week&#8217;s presidential debate.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s poor performance in the debate has garnered calls for him to drop out of the race by politicians on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Biden will speak to &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; and &#8220;This Week&#8221; anchor George Stephanopoulos for the interview. A first look will air on the Friday, July 5, edition of &#8220;World News Tonight with David Muir&#8221; with portions airing on Saturday and Sunday on &#8220;Good Morning America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The extended interview will air Sunday, July 7, on &#8220;This Week&#8221; and Monday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Good Morning America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden, 81, has been criticized for his uneven performance in the debate. Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett became the first House Democrat to call on Biden to withdraw as nominee Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite some calls for him to step aside, most Democrats have continued to support Biden as the nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC on Tuesday that the president had &#8220;a bad night,&#8221; but added, &#8220;He has judgment. He has strategic thinking and the rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, who is running for reelection in Pennsylvania, threw his support behind Biden Monday afternoon when asked about the president&#8217;s debate performance, telling reporters he is confident Biden can run a strong reelection race and serve a second term.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t worry about that. Look, he had a bad night in the debate, but I think people know what&#8217;s at stake,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell Watson\/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; President Joe Biden will sit down with ABC News on Friday for his first television interview since last week&#8217;s presidential debate. The president&#8217;s poor performance in the debate has garnered calls for him to drop out of the race by politicians on both<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/president-joe-biden-to-sit-down-with-abc-news-on-friday-for-first-tv-interview-since-debate\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}