Posted on 06/28/2024 4:15:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
After a full week of debate prep, and with CNN’s thumb on the scales, Joe Biden’s debate performance was abysmal and has been universally panned as a ‘catastrophe’ for Democrats.
“OPERATION REPLACE BIDEN,” the Drudge headline screamed Thursday night. “DEMS SCRAMBLE WITH 130 DAYS TO GO. DEBATE CATASTROPHE.”
CNN morning host Kasie Hunt wrote on X before the debate was over that Biden’s weak demeanor had all her Democrat friends “nearly beside themselves.”
“The voice, open-mouthed look, and visual contrast between President Biden and former President Trump all have Democrats I’m talking to nearly beside themselves watching this debate,” she said.
ABC News’ Jonathan Karl said Democrats are saying “Biden is so diminished it’s undeniable now.”
“It’s hard for me to accurately describe what a disaster thus was for Joe Biden,” said liberal commentator Chris Cillizza.
The main issue he is dealing with in this campaign is that voters think he’s too old to be president. They’re worried about his ability to do the job, they’re worried that 81 is just too old.
He could not have affirmed those fears more if he tried!
In a piece at the New York Time’s, columnist John Healy wrote: “I’m Hearing High Anxiety From Democrats Over Biden’s Debate Performance.”
Nicholas Kristof wrote on X: “I wish Biden would reflect on this debate performance and then announce his decision to withdraw from the race, throwing the choice of Democratic nominee to the convention. Someone like @gretchenwhitmer or @SherrodBrown or @SecRaimondo could still jump in and beat Trump.”
NBC News anchor Chuck Todd said people were watching the debate to see if either of the candidates would look like “the caricature that the other campaign had tried to paint of him. And at the end of the day, Joe Biden looks like the caricature that conservative media has been painting.”
Todd said that he has been talking to other Democrats and “there’s a full on panic about this performance.”
From start to finish, Biden looked and sounded weak. His voice was raspy, he stumbled repeatedly over his words, and told stale, long-debunked lies like the “very fine people” hoax and military “suckers and losers” hoax. When the topic turned to the border, Biden falsely claimed that the Border Patrol union had endorsed him.
“By the way the border patrol endorsed me, endorsed my position,” Biden said, as former President Trump shook his head in disbelief.
Border Patrol Union (NBPC) immediately responded on X: “To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.”
During the CNN roundtable after the debate, the network’s liberal pundits shared their dismay at Biden’s performance.
Former Obama advisor David Axelrod said that “there was a sense of shock” at how Biden sounded. “He seemed a little disoriented,” Axelrod said.
“There’s real concern here tonight that’s there’s real damage that’s been done that cannot be undone,” said CNN anchor Abby Phillips. “Biden solidified the perception among voters … that he cannot do this for another four years.”
“That was painful,” said CNN’s political analyst Van Jones, adding that he “loves Joe Biden,” but “he didn’t do well at all.”
“This was a game-changing debate,” said CNN anchor John King. “There is a deep, a wide, and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic party. It started minutes into the debate, and it continues right now.”
King said that there are conversations already happening about Biden’s “dismal” performance between party strategists, elected officials and party fundraisers who believe Biden has become a drag on the party..
“And they’re having conversations about what they should do about it,” he said. “Some of those conversations include, “should we go to the White House and ask him to step aside, and other conversations are about should prominent Democrats go public with that call because they think this debate was that terrible.”
“It started minutes in, it started with the first couple of answers, and it’s continued throughout the night from ‘oh my G-d, oh my G-d, oh my G-d, to what should we do about this?” King said. “And it involves very senior people in the Democratic party, including elected officials saying, “we have a problem.”
Exactly. They propped up this snarling old fossil as the only one who would be believable as having beaten Trump in an otherwise rigged election, saddled him with a jibbering idiot as a running mate/VP and now when it is OBVIOUS that his mental faculties have radically declined, they have to keep pushing this mouldering turd or face the consequences of having Jibbering Q. Idiot, Esq. as their candidate.
I. Love.It.
It’s not a “caricature”, it is an accurate assessment, otherwise known as the truth, which the dems/leftists in both the government and the media have been lying about and doing their best to hide for 3+ years.
Indeed, she has been very popular in the past and can be again. I predict she will always come out ahead and smoke them all in the polls.
It’s hard for me to believe that all of the democrats (both politicians and media boot-licks) were surprised by Creepy Sleepy Joe’s performance last night. Anyone being even remotely honest has known that Biden is a pudding-brained moron for many, many years.
I knew as soon as I saw that the moderators weren’t going after Trump that the decision to replace Joe had already been made. Tapper and Bash were likely told to just let it happen.
Most likely they will replace Joe at the convention. Gavin Newsom was trending on Twitter last night.
Drudge Report!?!?!?
OMG!!
“they’re having conversations about what they should do about it”
Meanwhile at the CIA a patsy is being given final preparation and an assassination plot is being fine tuned.
Welcome to “our democracy”.
Oh, sure...I saw it back then, but...it shows we knew it back then too!
I just like how his head rolled right into the woman’s hair, every time!
Yes, for the same reason that they voted for Joe Biden and Bill Clinton, and Al Gore, and the list goes on.
Even if they don't actually vote, will their "votes" be counted for the dem candidate? Yes. The dems don't need actual votes, just a number of registered voters to cover the fraud,
The laptop from hell indicated he had dementia issues while he was VP or shortly after he left.
I read Miranda Devine’s book, “laptop from hell”, and I thought it was pretty good but… Honestly… There was not one single thing in that book that surprised me in the slightest.
How shameful.
The first 2024 presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump was held on Thursday night. It marked the first time a sitting president debated a former one.
The 90-minute discussion hosted by CNN was more of an incoherent debacle than any substantive debate. Biden was halting and disjointed. He was hard to hear, muffled his lines and often appeared to lose his train of thought. Meanwhile, Trump... “Joe Biden really failed to rise to this moment,” says Chris Lehmann, D.C. bureau chief for The Nation. “I expected nothing great, but it was so much worse.”
We also speak with Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and the co-founder of RootsAction.org, which sponsors the “Step Aside Joe!” campaign. He says Biden’s performance in the debate showed “he is clearly impaired” and unable to defeat Trump, which is “a gift to the extreme right wing.”
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sntfVEYXQjo
I didn’t read the book, but nothing surprised me either knowing he got booted from the Navy Reserve for drug use..
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