Following Biden’s poor performance on Thursday night’s highly anticipated presidential debate, the Democratic Party is panicking about how to proceed. Many Biden supporters saw the debate as an opportunity for the president to take the stage and demonstrate that the concerns about his physical and mental health are overblown.
However, Biden only validated these worries, as pointed out by a left-leaning CNN panel that provided a post-debate assessment of the discussion between the two prospective candidates. CNN host John King highlighted that high-ranking members of the Democratic Party are in an “aggressive panic” over Biden’s exhibition on stage Thursday evening.
King stated, “Anderson, this was a game-changing debate in the sense 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 dismal, 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.”
The CNN host added that there are ongoing conversations over whether Biden should be asked to abandon his campaign and allow a better candidate to seek reelection against former President Donald Trump. King claimed that some are even considering going public with the request for Biden to step aside.
He added, “Some of those conversations include should we go to the White House and asked the president step aside? Others are, other the conversations are about should prominent Democrats go public with that call. But because they feel this debate was so terrible, they do say in moments in a debate later, the president got better and got his footing. But then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting.”
Former Biden White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield illustrated how the debate was Biden’s biggest chance to prove that he has the “energy and stamina” necessary for the President of the United States, noting that it was “very disappointing” to see him lack that.
“Yeah, look, I was a really disappointing debate performance from Joe Biden. I don’t think there’s any way, any other way to slice it. His biggest issue that he had to prove to the American people was he had the energy and the stamina, and he didn’t do that. And so I think that is of concern and and I think for a lot of Democrats, that’s very that’s very disappointing,” she said. Watch the panelists below:
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Furthermore, former Trump White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin asserted that Biden basically lost the debate as soon as it started. She suggested that Biden’s performance sparked conversations among millions of Americans over the uncertainty of whether the Democratic frontrunner is fit to serve.
I think Joe Biden lost in the first three minutes. I think a lot of voters probably tuned out, and millions of people are having conversations with their families, with their friends, of if the President is up to the task, and if he should step aside.