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Joe Biden’s disastrous June 27 debate has sparked an ongoing meltdown within the Democratic Party that has yet to subside. His ABC News interview didn’t quell any concerns about his mental health. He might have accentuated them with the gross poll denialism exhibited by the president. There have been so many stories about discord, anger, anxiety, and Joe losing his mental faculties that the primary one of concern is getting lost in the noise: who is running the country? The tales of pervasive senility are not new or lost on conservatives; we’ve seen Joe and know he’s half-dead. But an...

Why did anyone think Joe Biden was ready for a 90-minute presidential debate? One reason is that a small handful of journalists, with left-leaning sympathies but very credible records, have interviewed him and those close to him in the White House and returned with reports that while he’s definitely older, he’s still pretty sharp and in charge. Two of the most prominent are Biden biographers Evan Osnos and Franklin Foer. I spoke to them Sunday as they reconciled their own portrayals with the faltering 81-year-old they saw on national television. In his deeply-reported recent New Yorker article, Osnos detailed Biden...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden's fitness to serve a second term in office has been a top story since his halting performance in last week's debate against Donald Trump, where the president at times appeared unable to complete or articulate some thoughts in the pressure of the moment. To some press critics who are now reading these stories, there's another question: What took you so long? “It is simply astounding for the entire country, including its most seasoned reporters, to be as shocked as everyone was by the ugly and painful reality of Biden's debate performance,” Jill Abramson,...

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden Campaign Co-Chair Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) blamed President Joe Biden’s performance in last week’s presidential debate on “preparation overload” and stated that during the debate, “Biden was trying not to stray from the preparation, and he was grappling for numbers, grappling for platform positions, rather than reacting to the question directly from his own personal feelings, personal experiences.” Clyburn stated, “Well, as I watched the debate, alone, in my condo — I decided not to go to any watch parties — I felt, from the very beginning, that Joe Biden was going...

President Biden says, “I know I’m not a young man” in a new campaign ad released Monday, attempting to dispel worry about his ghastly debate performance that left many wondering if he will end his re-election bid. The 60-second ad, titled “I know,” will run in battleground states, according to his campaign, and specifically target younger audiences — a demographic that polling shows has been ditching its support of the 81-year-old prez. “Folks, I know I’m not a young man. But I know how to do this job. I know right from wrong. I know how to tell the truth,”...