- Days after his big interview with Biden, George Stephanopoulos doesn’t believe the man is fit for the top job.
- In a video obtained by TMZ, he told a passerby, “I don’t think he can do another four years.”
- Stephanopoulos is the latest critic to cast doubt on Biden’s fitness to run for reelection.
Days after sitting down for an interview with President Joe Biden, George Stephanopoulos expressed doubts about the man’s ability to serve another term.
TMZ obtained video of the ABC host walking down a street in New York City where a person asked him about Biden.
In the video, the person filmed Stephanopoulos walking toward them in gym clothes. They walked away from the host as they asked, “Do you think Biden should resign? You’ve been talking to him more than anyone else lately. Can you be honest?”
Stephanopoulos responded: “I don’t think he can serve another four years.”
The anchor confirmed he made the comment, but told TMZ, “Earlier today, I answered a question from a passerby. I shouldn’t have done that.”
An ABC News spokesperson told TMZ: “George expressed his own viewpoint and not the position of ABC News.”
During Stephanopoulos’s ABC News interview with Biden on Friday, the president gave no indication that he plans to resign following their disastrous June 27 presidential debate.
He told Stephanopoulos that he was just having a “bad night” during the debate. He also repeatedly said in the interview that only the “Lord Almighty” could make him drop out of the race.
Stephanopoulos is not the only political commentator who has interacted with Biden recently and expressed doubts about his ability to run for another term.
CNN’s Jake Tapper, who moderated the presidential debate, read a quote from Biden’s appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” interview.
“That sentence should be reassuring,” Tapper said.
Top Democrats, donors and former Biden supporters have questioned his fitness to run.
But Biden has been defiant in the face of dissent, saying he will not step aside.
Anonymous sources told Politico that during a Zoom call with his staff on July 3, he said: “Let me say this as clearly as possible — as simply and directly as possible: I am running.”
He reiterated that in a letter to House Democrats on Monday: “I would not run again if I did not absolutely believe that I am the best person to defeat Donald Trump in 2024.”
“The question of how to move forward has been well debated for over a week now,” Biden wrote. “And it is time for it to end.”
Representatives for Stephanopoulos and Biden did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s requests for comment sent outside of normal business hours.
