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.”
Will Joe drop out? Will the 25th get used? Will Hillary fly in on her broom?
Dark Diaper Brandon pooped his breeches
1. How? Heels Up Harris is the VP. She IS NOT going to step aside. She has zero incentive to do so. Her political career is over the second she does so and she knows it. And Democrats can't run her. So forget the 25th amendment. Its not going to happen.
2. So they replace him at the convention. This is a problem because who do they replace him with? Do they just step over Heels Up Harris? How does that play with their most loyal voters - Black Women - who overwhelmingly support Heels Up.
Newsome? Deeply unpopular everywhere outside Commiefornia. Hell, even in Commiefornia they tried to recall him. Buttplug? Blacks won't vote for him - nor will Muslims in Michigan and he's been a disaster as transportation secretary. Big Mike? Hates politics, has zero charisma and truly hates the lowly peasants errrr.....people. Big Mike will never run. Hilary? As bad as she is, she might be the only option.....and she can't win.
It is time to evict the Democrats from the People’s House.
It is time to evict the Democrats from the People’s House.
It is all BS. They have known the whole time. This is just for show. They were always going to replace slow Joe. This just gives them cover. Trump should start hammering them on this and especially on what they are going to have to do to Kamala.
How can the RAT party abandon Bidet after he defeated Medicare?
Very well said. The Dems are in a real pickle right now. All they have is hatred of Trump and cheating. They may figure that’s enough since it worked in 2020. I don’t think it’ll be enough this time around. Bidenomics has been a disaster and there’s not enough time to turn the tide.
Harris can be bought off. There will be bribes aplenty to get this deal done. I figure Heels Up will be promised something like the ambassadorship to Paris or London and all the weed she can smoke.
Meanwhile, Hilary! is having her face sandblasted and her back waxed so as to appear more human-like in a bid the step in as the candidate. Greasy Gavin is filing off his lizard claws and bleaching his teeth to get that million-dollar smile and act as the nations biggest used car salesman..
Cant wait to see all the back room infighting and a potential putsch by the far left loonies of the Squad.
Donald Dems aren’t panicking...
The Dems need to live with him. They have been telling us everything is fine it is all cheap fakes for months. So they can ride him down in flames.
Tune in tomorrow.....Same Brandon time.....Same Brandon channel.
And the next one will be even worse. Everyday Biden’s dementia is get ting worse. His eyes were empty.
“We need the machines!”
Schlonged!
Gavin Newsome is EXACTLY the same as JOE BIDEN WAS DECADES AGO!!! I watched videos of both of them at the same age.....IDENTICAL!! SLEAZY, GREASY PHONY!!!
Jill Biden’s performance sucked too. The current “first family” of evil isn’t the first. Hopefully it will be the last. Restoring the republic BUMP!
THIS DEBATE WAS AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER FOR BIDEN
TYT calls it after the first debate, it’s over for President Biden. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola react to the first Presidential debate on The Young Turks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MycxHCs9mEU
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