After weeks of defiance over calls for him to drop out of the presidential race, Joe Biden just gave the first real hint that he might be willing to do so.
In several past interviews, Biden insisted that he was the nominee and that nothing but God could force him to withdraw. Yet, in a new interview with BET, the president directly stated that he would drop out if medical professionals advised him to.
The 81-year-old president made the remark in a BET interview taped Tuesday when asked what it would take to prompt him to reconsider his candidacy.
“If I had some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if doctors came to me and said, you got this problem and that problem,” Biden said in an excerpt released Wednesday.
Video of the exchange was not available as of this writing, but the released excerpt has set the internet on fire. Is Biden creating a path for a “dignified”…
