liberal la la land. they don t have to do any of it. all right. well, i m going i m going to pick it up where you left off, but i love those interviews. awesome handshakes. i m laura ingram . this is ingram angle from washington tonight. thank you so much for being with us. apokolips biden. that s the focus of tonight s angle. all right. will he or won t he? as in will joe biden seek a second term or not? well, the white house is the answer to the question has been, well, evolving. my plan is to run for reelection. that s my expectation. besim going to run in 2024. is he telling staff that? yes, that s his intention. is the president running for reelection? his answer has been pretty simple, which is , yes, joe biden is running for reelection and i will be his ticket mate. full stop. please stop it. listen to president biden. he intends to run. and if he does, i intend to run with him. so there you go . and if he does, i will be running with him. probably. and t
as he s always said, labour say he won t commit to anything that cannot be funded in future. so that s, i guess, a sort of clarification from labour there just to kind of calm anyone who might have heard that and had any concerns. of course, there is another huge political race going on over the atlantic and last night we saw the first tv debate between joe atlantic and last night we saw the first tv debate betweenjoe biden and donald trump. let s get some more on that, i am joined by democratic strategist and former presidential campaign strategist to the republican party. thank you both very much for being here on bbc news. laura, ifi very much for being here on bbc news. laura, if i can start with you, we have seen a lot of reaction to joe you, we have seen a lot of reaction tojoe biden s performance described by some as panic. what would you say, what is your response to what you have seen? i say, what is your response to what you have seen? you have seen? i would call i
us presidentjoe biden and his rival donald trump have gone head to head he has been criticised for a week and hesitant performance in the first head to head tv debate. he struggled as his rivalformer president donald trump made repeated claims that weren t true as the two sparred over their respective terms in office. they even swiped at each other about golf are several key topics were not mentioned at all. let s speak tojohn sudworth, who is in atlanta, where the debate took place. this was a bad night for us politics. yes, in normal circumstances the focus might be on those falsehoods that littered donald trump s performance, but in contrast he appeared presidential. this was a terrible night forjoe biden, faltering, at times seeming to be unable to complete his train of thought, and an event that was asked for by the democrats that had the purpose of trying to allay concerns about his age and mental competence has only amplified them and it has pushed those long simmerin