If you toggled between MSNBC and CNN immediately after the first presidential debate, Democrat panelists on both channels took turns saying some variation of, “This wasn’t a good night for Joe Biden” or the party might need to “figure out” a solution to an obvious problem. Namely, that Biden is plainly not capable of being president right now, let alone for another four years.
As happy as Donald Trump’s supporters surely are with the display, the event puts the nation in a highly precarious situation — what won’t Democrats do now, this late in the game, to win the election?
John King on CNN said, “There has to be a conversation with the president after tonight.” Van Jones on the same channel said Biden should “consider taking a different course now.” A former aide to Biden, Kate Bedingfield, also said on CNN that it was an exceptionally “bad night” for Biden.
Politico headline: “Dems freak out over Biden’s debate performance: ‘Biden is toast.’”
It’s not really like Democrats are in a dramatically different position between now and yesterday. Or for the last two years. Anyone paying loose attention in that time has known that Biden is simply not up to the task. Literally, today, it’s a national security threat that he’s in office. The only difference is that this was a nationally televised debate, and for the first time in Biden’s presidency he was placed directly next to his competition. It made everything that everyone has said all along real.
