President Joe Biden, and former President Donald Trump clashed as they went head to head in their first presidential debate.
But this is different. There is a sweeping agreement across the political divide that this was a disastrous debate for President Joe Biden .
And the problem for the White House is that this was the president's best chance to alter the perception that he is in a state of physical and cognitive decline.Few people can honestly argue that the Biden candidacy is sustainable after last night's performance Biden is the party's nominee - to be crowned at the Democratic convention in Chicago later in the summer.
Donald Trump didn't win the debate. He repeatedly peddled falsehoods - 30 according to one fact-checker -and he dived deep into absurd conspiracy theories, and was ambiguous in his answers about the January 6 insurrection.And in truth - visible to anyone watching these two elderly men debate - there was another clear loser: America.
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