US Secretary of State Antony Blinken responded, on Monday (1st), to criticism of President Joe Biden’s performance in last week’s debate, saying that his policies over the last 3 and a half years have increased confidence in American leadership in the world. .
With global media outlets expressing concern over Biden’s debate performance against Donald Trump, Blinken was asked at a Brookings Institute event what “friends and foes” around the world should know about US leadership under Biden.
Blinken said people around the world are watching what Biden has done since taking office, not what he did just one night, and that they appreciate his policies.
“They saw a president who reinvested in America, reinvested America in the world, reinvested in these alliances, in these partnerships in ways that they seek and want,” Blinken said.
Many Americans expressed dismay with both candidates after the 90-minute debate on CNN last Thursday (27). Biden, the 81-year-old Democratic incumbent, his voice hoarse from a cold, hesitated on some answers and left them incomplete on others. Republican Trump, 78, has repeated a series of outrageous claims that have been proven false multiple times, including the claim that he actually won the 2020 election, but Biden has not refuted them.
It was the first time since Thursday that Blinken, the top US diplomat and a longtime adviser to Biden, was asked about the debate. He emphasized Biden’s performance in office.
Biden supporters hoped the debate would dispel concerns that he was too old for another term, but instead it fueled those concerns. Some Democrats have called for Biden to drop out of the race.
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