President Joe Biden lost the first presidential debate Within 14 minutes. This isn’t to say that former President Donald Trump wasn’t good — he was — but he never said a more scathing rebuke of the sitting president than the sitting president himself.
By the 18-minute mark, Biden had also botched the abortion question, muttered and changed the subject to illegal immigration, then chucked the ball back to Trump for a home run.
Despite being given a second chance and doing slightly better, Biden was unable to dent an opponent willing to denounce the Democratic Party’s abortion policies. “He’s going to rip a fetus out of the womb at nine months and kill that fetus,” Trump countered. “…We think Democrats are extremists. We don’t think Republicans are.”
By 9:50 a.m., the White House was telling reporters the president had a cold, and the press guard was rushing in to try to offer an excuse for the evening’s disaster.
Trump was back to his old self, confident, agile, and unintimidating. By the time the border issue came up, he was making his first real move. Laugh-out-loud lines “I really don’t know what he said at the end,” she said, responding to Biden’s incoherent and rambling comments.
In contrast, the current president seemed lost, especially in the first 20 minutes, closing his eyes, muttering to himself, having a “Rick Perry moment” with every answer and seeming lost for his position during the first 30 minutes — traditionally the most important part of a debate before the American public starts to tune out.
“The contrast in voice, open-mouthed expression and appearance between President Biden and former President Trump is having the Democrats I speak to almost lose their minds watching this debate,” CNN reporter Casey Hunt tweeted.
Biden seemed to come to his senses by the end of that crucial first half-hour, his eyes coming back to life and his facial expressions more in control. Blaze TV host Steve Dees During a pre-show discussion, he pointed out that dementia is easier to manage if you’re warm, but harder to manage if you’re cold. And maybe he was right. Either way, it was too late for the old man in the White House.
This was unexpected. People can joke all they want about Biden’s declining mental health in public, but he usually only performs when necessary. Of course, he used a teleprompter for the State of the Union and Normandy, but his finest moment in his final address to Congress may have been his impromptu speech about illegal immigrant murderers, though he eventually apologized.
But we haven’t seen Biden perform in a debate in four years. The decline is real, and it changes from week to week. “I debated Joe seven times in 2020,” former Democratic candidate Andrew Yang said. Tweeted“He’ll be a different person in 2024.”
It’s important to remember that the debate was conducted entirely on Biden’s terms, including with a moderator in control of the microphones and no audience in the studio for the first time since Richard Nixon debated John F. Kennedy in 1960.
By 9:50 a.m., the White House He told a reporter The boss was sick with a cold and palace guards from the press had rushed in to explain the evening’s disaster.
Biden needed this win. He failed, even though nearly every poll is moving against him. There are still about two months until the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. DC loves to imagine political social games like swapping candidates. That might be true this time, but the reality is Biden himself needs to step aside. The MSNBC panel after the game was in total panic, discussing replacing him from the top spot, calling their candidate “very weak…very weak.”
“He believes he’s the only one who can win,” MCNBC host Joy Reid said. “The problem is the party doesn’t believe that.”
The next debate is on September 10, just weeks after Democrats choose their nominee in Chicago.
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Trump polls rise on debate eve
Pre-debate polls had been almost entirely in Trump’s favor, despite the former president’s conviction and a month-long propaganda campaign by Biden to try to undermine him by labelling him a “felon.”
Nationally, the RealClearPolitics average has him ahead by 1.3 points, and the latest Quinnipiac University poll, conducted June 20-24, has him ahead by 4 points.
Remember those young people who came out to vote for President Barack Obama? They’re now Trump supporters. 18-29 year olds voted for Obama by 33 points in 2008. Now, Echelon Insights pollster Patrick Ruffini points out, those same voters are 30-44 and are favoring Trump by +5, or a 38 point margin.
“The president has been very vocal about his views on the matter, and he has been very vocal about his views on the matter,” said Ryan Tyson, a partner at P2 Insights and a former pollster for Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign. vote Wednesday’s announcement showed that between June 11 and 20, Trump had won the key battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, and that his lead had widened in all of those states except Michigan.
Biden had an approval rating of 59%, 23 points higher than Trump, when he took office in January 2021. Gallup currently rates Biden 12 points lower than Trump.
Meanwhile, despite the White House’s constant messaging, a Washington Post poll of registered voters conducted between April 15 and May 30 found that while voters are concerned about “threats to democracy,” they also trust Trump more than Biden on the issue, 44% to 33%.
All three Republicans who blocked South Carolina’s heartbeat bill lost their primaries.
South Carolina Sen. Katrina Seely conceded defeat in her primary election Tuesday night, becoming the third of three Republican state senators to lose their seat after blocking her party’s heartbeat bill.
Seelye gained notoriety after standing up alongside Republican state senators Sandy Senn and Penry Gustafson and Democratic state senators Margie Bright Matthews and Mia McLeod to block pro-life legislation after the 2022 constitutional amendment repeal. Roe v. Wade.
The five politicians were awarded the JFK Act of Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, but while they were praised in Massachusetts, voters were not so pleased, and the three Republicans were expelled in June of this year.
Meanwhile, the South Carolina Freedom Caucus defended the incumbent despite spending an estimated $2 million to $3 million to oust him.
While it’s tempting to think of most Republican-leaning states as having conservative administrations — in reality, state politicians typically vote more to the left than their constituents — conservatives have made surprising gains in primaries across the country this election cycle.
Members of the Illinois State Freedom Caucus defended their seats against attacks from teachers unions in Illinois and Pennsylvania, where teachers unions spent a whopping $700,000 to remove two Illinois State Freedom Caucus members.
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