The highly anticipated presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and incumbent Joe Biden occurred last night. The discussion, which CNN host Jake Tapper moderated, proved to be a troubling performance for Joe Biden in many moments during the night.
During one particularly concerning moment, President Biden began to stumble over his words while talking about the border crisis. While Biden is seemingly struggling with his words, Trump cocks his head, looking at his opponent, seemingly confused as to what he is attempting to convey.
“We had the..the…total initiative relative to what we’re going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers,” Biden said. Tapper asked Trump what he thought of the comments. The former president responded, “I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said.
Trump continued, blasting Biden’s record with the southern border, where millions of illegal immigrants have unlawfully entered the country since he took office. Trump asserted that Biden should have left the border in the state it was in when he handed over the presidency. “Look, we had the safest border in the history of our country. All he had to do was leave it all he had to do is to leave it,” he said.
Biden’s debate performance has sparked serious concerns about whether Joe Biden is capable of serving a second term. Polling from earlier this year found that 86% of Americans believed Joe Biden was too old to be reelected.
Following the debate, a clip of CNN has gone viral on social media, showing CNN panelists discussing the “panic” within the Democratic Party. CNN Chief National Correspondent John King emphasized that Democrats are scrambling while trying to figure out how to mitigate the situation.
He said, “That right now as we speak, 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. It involves party strategists. It involves elected officials. It involves fundraisers, and they’re having conversations about the President’s performance, which they think was visible, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket, and they’re having conversations about what they should do about it.” Watch the clip of Trump and Biden below:
King further suggested that Democrats may go as far as trying to have Biden step aside for a more adept candidate. He illustrated how the disparity in performances between the two candidates highlighted a “halting contrast.”
“Some of those conversations include, should we go to the White House and ask the president step aside? Others are other. The conversations are about, should prominent Democrats go public with that call because they feel this debate was so terrible, they do say in moments in the debate. Later, the President got better, and got his footing, but then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting the contrast between the two candidates. Let me be clear. None of them. And a of Republicans don’t think Donald Trump had a great night, Donald Trump, broke the fact check machine, more than I can count that,” Trump said.
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