NYT’s Friedman, a close Biden confidant, urges US president to quit election race

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, a close associate of US President Joe Biden, says the incumbent must be replaced as a candidate in November’s election, compounding the Democrat’s abysmal performance in the debate with Donald Trump.

In an op-ed titled “President Biden Is My Friend. He Must Bow Out of the Race,” Friedman writes that the debate “made me weep. I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime.”

Friedman has close ties with Biden’s office, and has often publicly conveyed messages from the president that the latter chose not to deliver officially.

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