President Joe Biden loses his train of thought during presidential debate against Donald Trump while he speaks on medicare.
The torturous 90-minute debate saw President Biden deliver a series of gaffes. He is now facing calls from many Democrats , donors and strategist to step down Joe Biden 's catastrophic showing in last night's presidential debate with Donald Trump has been labelled by Democrat donors as 'the worst performance in history'.
And former Republican campaign strategist-turned-Democrat Steve Schmidt said: 'Biden lost the country tonight, and will not get it back. If Trump is a threat and democracy is on the line, then Biden must step aside.' Evidently feeling peckish after having expended his limited mental energy on the stand, the president then stopped off at the fast-food joint for a bite to eat with Jill but was confronted by patrons over his sorry showing.
Jill Biden congratulated her husband after the shocking performance in a cringeworthy scene reminiscent of a mother babying their young child Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks as he participates in the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections with US President Joe Biden at CNN's studios in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 27, 2024
Plouffe also remarked that Trump and Biden looked '30 years apart', despite an age gap of just three years between them. But he was powerless to distract from the reality of his performance - something Trump's team has gleefully made light of, compiling all of Biden's mumbling and bumbling in a video entitled: 'Needless to say, the drugs didn't work'.Just look how he was escorted from the stage #Trump #Biden #PresidentialDebate2024 #Presidential— Hzq.
One senior Democratic strategist told Reuters after the debate that it would be unprecedented for an incumbent to pull out this late in the election cycle, but that there would be calls for Biden to do just that as Democrats fretted over the stark display of the president's failing faculties. Former special presidential adviser-turned CNN commentator Van Jones said that even though he 'loved' Joe Biden, his debate performance was 'painful'.
Biden is now facing calls to stand aside - and Jill Biden has been urged to tell her husband to allow someone else to stand Cooper noted that Biden's debate performance last night was visibly less convincing than when Harris herself debated him in the Democrat presidential primary back in 2020. US President Joe Biden speaks to supporters gathered on the tarmac upon his arrival at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in Morrisville, North Carolina, early on June 28, 2024 'Listen, people can debate on style points, but ultimately this election and who is the president of the United States has to be about substance,' Harris said.
Harris also appeared on MSNBC to beat back the idea that Biden performed badly during the debate, and trotted out the same defence. 'You don't send the Vice President of the United States out if you won the debate, typically,' former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on MSNBC as the political panel laughed.
At other times, Biden made some puzzling non sequiturs that seemed to undercut what the campaign has pushed as his strong points, including the economy and abortion rights. He largely remained silent as Biden delivered his gaffes and allowed the Democrat to dig his own grave - but on a couple of occasions couldn't help but highlight his adversary's issues.
Trump warned that the members of the congressional committee that investigated Jan. 6 could face criminal charges, as could Biden himself.Biden then brought Trump's recent criminal trial in New York over hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels - charges on which he was convicted.
President Biden repeatedly stumbled over his words and could clearly be seen losing his train of thought, with Trump declaring at one stage: 'I don't know what he just said.' 'We beat Medicare,' he eventually said before the CNN moderator stepped in to say: 'Thank you President Biden.' 'We're going to make this country successful again, because right now it's a failing nation. My retribution is going to be success. But when he talks about a convicted felon, his son is a convicted felon. At a very high level. His son is convicted,' Trump said. Biden then brought up his reported affair with the low blow that it allegedly happened when Melania Trump was pregnant with Barron.
Trump bragged about winning two golf tournaments recently, 'and not even senior, two regular club championships.' He said the feat requires a golfer to be 'quite smart' and able to hit the ball a long way. Trump said Biden's handicap claim was the 'biggest lie', prompting the pair to start clashing with one another again.Long after the debate was over, golf was still on Trump's mind. He posted a video of himself hitting a long drive.On a night in which President Biden repeatedly stumbled over his words, Trump landed a bitter blow by calling his rival out on it.
The debate opened with Biden being asked: 'What do you say to voters who feel they are worse off under your presidency than they were under President Trump?'7. 'Biden migrant crime' Donald Trump said Biden had failed to secure the southern US border, leading to an influx of scores of criminals But FBI statistics do not separate out crimes by the immigration status of the assailant, nor is there any evidence of a spike in crime perpetrated by migrants, either along the U.S.-Mexico border or in cities seeing the greatest influx of migrants, like New York.Biden blamed Trump for eroding abortion rights after the Republican's three nominees to the Supreme Court voted to reverse Roe v. Wade, which had recognised a nationwide constitutional right to abortion.
He said he supports abortion ban exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, and he repeated his false claim that Biden supports abortion up to and after birth.Trump said Democrats support abortion until birth and that 'everybody' wanted to overturn Roe v Wade. But less than one per cent of abortions in the US are performed at or past 21 weeks and Roe remained popularly throughout the half-century it was in effect.
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