Posted on 06/27/2024 8:55:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wow, that was brutal. Just brutal.
From the moment Joe Biden first spoke, it was clear this was going to be a bad night for him. My only conclusion is that all the talk about Biden potentially being drugged for this debate to boost his performance ultimately scared the campaign from doing just that.
This was a huge gamble for the Biden campaign to have Joe debate Trump, and they lost big time. But don't take my word for it.
Politico reports that "Democrats expressed confusion and concern as they watched the first minutes of the event. One former Biden White House and campaign aide called it 'terrible,' adding that they have had to ask themselves over and over 'What did he just say? This is crazy.''"
Another veteran Democratic operative texted, “Biden seems to have needed a few minutes to warm up. I wonder if the lack of an audience was the right decision. And poor guy needs a tea. Maybe a whiskey.”
Jay Surdukowski, an attorney and Democratic activist from New Hampshire who co-chaired Martin O’Malley’s 2016 presidential campaign in the state, said, “Biden is toast — calling it now.”
Biden’s rambling answers provided Trump multiple opportunities to jump in with retorts. At one point, after an answer ostensibly on immigration, Trump said, “I don’t know what he said at the end there. I don’t think he knows what he said.”
The president’s performance was widely panned online and will likely reinforce the impression that he’s lost a step. The 81-year-old president’s age has long been a liability, with poll after poll showing even many Democrats concerned about his age.
The Biden campaign claimed Biden's raspy voice was due to a cold, "
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Thirty minutes into the presidential debate, I’ve heard from three veteran Democratic presidential campaign officials, and all of them had the same reaction to President Biden’s performance: This is a disaster.
It wasn’t just that Biden wasn’t landing a glove on Donald Trump on the economy, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Covid, taxes, temperament or anything else that was coming up in the questioning. It was Biden’s voice (low and weak) and facial expression (frozen, mouth open, few smirks) with answers that were rambling or vague or ended in confusion. He gave remarks about health care and abortion that didn’t make a strong point, giving Trump a chance to say lines like, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said, either.”
"It is criminal political negligence that Democrats rigged their primary to nominate Biden, who looks half-alive on the debate stage facing Trump," observed veteran Democratic strategist Peter Daou.
Over at CNN, Van Jones called for Biden to drop out.
🚨CNN’S VAN JONES CALLS FOR BIDEN TO PULL OUT OF RACE:
“There are going to be a lot of people who want him to consider taking a different course now… That was not what we needed from Joe Biden. It is personally PAINFUL for a lot of people.” pic.twitter.com/IgcnwZhCbS— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 28, 2024
CNN and MSNBC are in full “ride to the rescue” spin mode.
Why does everyone always go to Van Jones for his opinions?
We’ve got to make sure that any and all illegal aliens caught voting are deported IMMEDIATELY.
Agreed. It used to be novel to ask a commie for his opinion. Now they’re a dime a dozen
Steve Schmidt says replace Biden. He’ll walk it back.
Even in the wake of this disaster the MSM is all in lockstep telling us the Democrats are in panic mode. They all suspected this could happen but were hoping against hope Biden would at least survive the debate. Now the message is clear from all of them. Joe needs to go and another candidate must take his place on the presidential ticket.
Well, they paid the price for not opening their primary to younger candidates.
Well, they could always draft huge Country Western stars Princess Maren Morris and Jelly Been for their ticket now that Hip Hop and Rappers have taken over Music City Row.
That was awesome! Trump was in top form tonight, excellent. What shocked me was that they actually let Trump talk!
Most of these calls to replace will not hold up.
Nothing . . . absolutely NOTHING . . . is going to happen until there is a new cycle of polling. Not for who won the debate. For presidential preference.
If the needle moves very little, he will not be replaced. And it will be hard to get that needle to move because most Biden voters are anti-Trump voters and don’t care that it is Biden as the opponent, whatever his state.
So just slow down. The wagons are going to circle and they will have him do a brief press conference in a few days “after he recovers from the cold”.
Trump should not debate again — depending on the timing of the NY trial sentencing. I don’t recall when the 2nd debate was scheduled.
RE: You know what this means don’t you?
Just what we need, another washed up Septuagenarian !! Sheesh!!
Braindead has gone from $1.00 to win $1.55’
to $1.00 to win $4.90.
Newsome and Pres ?trump are the ones who’s odds came in.
Where the polling never ends
Biden is out to 5/1 and Newsom is in to 8/1.
Current odds:
Pres Trump -170 which is roughly 5/8.
Biden 5/1
Newsom 8/1
Big Mike 21/1
The rest are 65/1 and up.
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