总统乔·拜登在周三播出的一次采访中，他说，如果他的医生告诉他，他有一种“健康状况”，他会考虑退出总统竞选，这是他对可能导致他下台的原因的最新解释越来越多的民主党人迫使他这样做。
“如果出现了某种医疗状况，如果有人，如果医生，来找我说，‘你有这个问题和那个问题。’但我在整个辩论中犯了一个严重的错误，”他告诉BET的埃德·戈登采访设定在东部时间晚上10点播出
采访是在白宫周三晚些时候宣布拜登的新冠肺炎病毒检测呈阳性之前进行的，他说他的症状很轻微。
拜登现在给出了几个可能让他决定退出竞选的变化不定的原因。
在他糟糕的辩论表演后，他在7月5日的采访中告诉ABC新闻，只有“万能的主”可能会让他退出。
2024年7月5日，在美国广播公司的独家新闻中，乔·拜登总统与乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯交谈。
当美国广播公司的乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯问道，“如果你能确信自己不会失败唐纳德·特朗普，你能退下吗?”拜登回答，“嗯，这要看情况..如果万能的主降临告诉我，我可能会这样做。"
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在一周前的新闻发布会上，他说他将继续参加竞选，除非他的助手告诉他，他没有机会赢得第二个任期。
“不，除非他们回来说，‘你不可能赢。’“没人这么说。没有民意调查这么说，”拜登告诉记者。
同样在BET的采访中，拜登说:“当我最初竞选时，我说我将成为一名过渡性的候选人，我认为我能够从这种状态转移到其他人身上。但坦率地说，我没有预料到事情会变得如此、如此、如此分裂，我认为年龄带来的唯一一件事就是一点点智慧，”他说。“我认为我已经证明了我知道如何为国家做好事情，尽管事实上我们被告知我们做不到。但还有更多的事情要做，我不愿意就此放弃。”
周二，他全心全意地支持副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯，认为她不仅是一位“伟大的副总统”，而且伟大到“她可以成为美国总统”，他在全美有色人种协进会全国代表大会上发表讲话时说。
Biden said he might leave race 'if I had some medical condition that emerged'
PresidentJoe Bidensaid in an interview airing on Wednesday that, should his doctors tell him he had a "medical condition," he would consider dropping out of the presidential race, his latest explanation of what might cause him to step aside as agrowing number of Democrats pressured him to do so.
"If there had [muffled] some medical condition that emerged, if somebody, if the doctors, came to me, said, 'you got this problem and that problem.' But I made a serious mistake in the whole debate, " he told BET's Ed Gordon n a preview clip of theinterviewset to air at 10 p.m. ET
The interview was done before the White House announced late Wednesday that Biden had tested positive for COVID-19, saying that his symptoms were mild.
Biden has now given several shifting reasons about what might make him decide to leave the race.
He told ABC News in a July 5 interview after his poor debate performance debate that only the "Lord Almighty" might get him to drop out.
President Joe Biden speaks with George Stephanopoulos on July 5, 2024, in an ABC News exclusive.
When ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked, "If you can be convinced that you cannot defeatDonald Trump, will you stand down?" Biden answered, "Well, it depends on .. on if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me that, I might do that."
In a news conference a week ago, he said he would stay in the race unless hisaides told him he had no chance to win a second term.
"No, unless they came back and said, 'There’s no way you can win.' "No one is saying that. No poll says that," Biden told reporters.
Also in the BET interview, Biden said, "When I originally ran, I said I was gonna be a transitional candidate, and I thought that I'd be able to move from this just pass it on to someone else. But I didn't anticipate things getting so, so, so divided and quite frankly, and I think the only thing age brings a little bit of wisdom," he said. "And I think I've demonstrated that I know how to get things done for the country, in spite of the fact that we [were] told we couldn't get it done. But there's more to do, and I'm reluctant to walk away from that."
On Tuesday, he wholeheartedly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as not only a "great vice president" but so great that "she could be president of the United States," he said while addressing the NAACP national convention in Las Vegas.
