“It was a terrible night. You can’t judge a president’s job in 90 minutes. His aides are to blame for screwing up the debate preparations.”
Blame the media for their obsession with age. Blame CNN hosts for failing to counter Donald Trump’s lies. Blame the Democrats for being a bunch of bedwetters.
The blame game is accelerating as Biden and his campaign try to minimize the damage from his disastrous debate performance and silence critics who say he’s sure to lose the election.
The problem with this exchange of accusations is that 50 million Americans watched as the president struggled to deliver a coherent message or counter Trump’s attacks, at times losing his train of thought entirely.
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President Biden participated in CNN’s presidential debate held at CNN studios in Atlanta on June 27. (Andrew Harnick/Getty Images)
The sitting White House president, with his blank look and mouth agape, didn’t need the help of an army of experts to analyze what he saw.
It is true that mainstream liberal media now advocates for Biden to step aside and put forward a younger candidate, including the editorial boards of The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as such notable figures as Tom Friedman, Paul Krugman, David Ignatius, Nick Kristof and David Remnick.
As a result, a CBS poll after the debate found that the number of people who think Biden is not mentally fit to serve another term jumped from 65% to 72%.
However, Biden campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon released a memo saying, “If we see a shift in the polls over the coming weeks, it would not be the first time that exaggerated media reports have led to a temporary drop in the polls.”
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With all due respect, this was Biden’s desired debate, conducted under the no-interruptions rules he requested. With Democrats in a state of panic and talk of a different person being chosen at the convention, this will of course be big news.
President Trump also received support from the Supreme Court yesterday. The court ruled that President Trump has absolute immunity when it comes to his official business, including dealings with the Department of Justice, but sent some of the January 6th indictments back to the courts, meaning more litigation. President Trump called this a “huge victory for our Constitution.”
“I just had a bad night” is not an excuse. Barack Obama said he had a bad night (against Mitt Romney in 2012), but he was 51 at the time. No one questioned his stamina or mental acuity. It’s a far cry from a frail 81-year-old president seeking reelection.
At a Biden family gathering at Camp David on Sunday, the focus of discussion was not on whether the president would leave office but on how to get through the crisis. The Times reports. And Jill Biden, who in my view has been the subject of much unfair attack, has supported her husband. They have always supported each other’s decisions, so it is unrealistic to expect her to call the president off the hook.
Following President Biden’s poor debate performance last week, Democrats are trying to save face by blaming someone or something other than Biden. (SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)
The media has taken a lot of flak for covering up Biden’s decline, but they’ve long been concerned by the president’s advanced age. With a few exceptions, most journalists don’t have access to Biden. They’ve seen what everyone else sees on TV: a president increasingly mumbling and stumbling. And now it’s clear why his top advisers were so determined to shield him from the press, even in a softball interview at the Super Bowl.
Even more surprising is Axios report They say most of the White House staff, even the mansion staff, including the butler, were barred from Biden’s presence so they wouldn’t see his true condition. Think about it: Led by top adviser Jill Biden, they had the president wrapped in bubble wrap and isolated from most of the people who work for him with taxpayer money. That’s why they were shocked by his performance in the debate.
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The reason Democrats are panicking right now is because they are absolutely convinced that if Trump wins, democracy as we know it will end and dictatorship will be in. To this day, liberals still don’t understand Trump’s appeal and why he’s leading this race even though he’s a convicted felon.
But if their concerns are well-founded, why risk putting Trump back in the Oval Office against an octogenarian who made such a humiliating blunder on debate night? Democrats frequently accuse Trump of only thinking about himself, but aren’t they selfish, too?
Former President Trump participated in the first presidential debate held at CNN studios in Atlanta, Georgia on June 27. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
It’s probably too late now, but those who suggested Joe shouldn’t run (former Obama-Biden aide David Axelrod said last November that Joe should consider dropping out) received significant backlash, including a White House leak in which Biden called Axelrod a “jerk.”
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I’ve covered Joe Biden since the 1980s, when he loved to talk at length with reporters. I also profiled him in 1987 when he first launched his campaign for the White House, which ended in a plagiarism scandal. He was nominated as Obama’s running mate in 2008, an unsuccessful attempt, and then in 2020, the press declared him finished when he finished fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire, only to win a landslide victory in South Carolina and catapulted him to the nomination.
Biden has been trying to be president his whole adult life, flying around on Air Force One is addictive, and he still believes he’s the only Democrat who can beat Trump.
He has no plans to leave the White House, even though many in his party believe he should.
