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.” One of the Democrats said Biden looked scared. Another said it was an “emperor has no clothes” performance so far. The third said of the performance overall, “Don’t ask.” Trump lied repeatedly during the debate about the pandemic, immigration and Roe v. Wade, but Biden didn’t hold him accountable for those lies in a memorable way. At times, Trump attacked Biden, but the president didn’t fight back. Frank Luntz, a veteran focus group moderator who was holding a live focus group during the debate, wrote of their reactions so far: “The group is so bothered by Biden’s voice and appearance. But they’re getting madder and madder with Trump’s personal attacks.” “If Trump talks less,” Luntz said, “he wins. If Biden doesn’t stop talking, he loses.”
Yep, and Democrats are already trying to make excuses for him. Now they’re saying Biden has a cold, lol
Fucker probably got his lungs fried by Covid. Oh wait Covid is over can’t be that.
Biden actually has tons of debate competence, it just goes to another school, in Canada,
Honest to goodness, I can believe he is sick and that probably had a serious impact on his performance, but I don’t think it matters. Nobody came away saying “oh, I guess Biden had a cold”, everyone came away with the distinct impression that we’d be better off having ChatGPT be the democratic candidate.
ChatGPT is to the left of Biden on a number of issues.
I mean, it certainly sounded like he had phlegm but, like his stutter, it doesn’t seem that relevant.