
President Joe Biden sat down with ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos for a high-stakes interview on Friday, the week after a poor debate performance prompted questions about his fitness for the presidency and calls for him to withdraw from the 2024 race.
Here is a fact check of some of Biden’s claims in the interview.
New York Times polling
Biden claimed that “the New York Times had me down 10 points before the debate, nine now, or whatever the hell it is.”
Facts First: Biden’s claim that he gained a point in New York Times polling after the debate is false. In fact, the Times’ post-debate poll, conducted with Siena College, showed Biden doing three points worse against former President Donald Trump than he had done in the final Times/Siena poll before the debate.