‘We Are F*cking Dead’: Democrats Sound the Alarm After Biden’s ‘Bad’ Debate Performance

CNN

Democrats are having a veritable freakout after President Joe Biden turned in a poor debate performance against Donald Trump on Thursday night.

Biden’s responses were such that there were conversations on MSNBC about whether the presumptive Democratic nominee should drop out of the race and make way for a convention battle for the nomination in August.

“I was on the phones for some of it after that became clear and there is a conversation happening inside Biden’s circle, and certainly a much more frank conversation happening inside the Democratic coalition,” Nicolle Wallace said. “And I think there will be stories of a lot of concern about the performance tonight.”

Politico relayed even more dire perspectives in articles quoting Democratic operatives saying, “Biden is toast.” Another piece quoted an adviser of big Democratic donors that was even more blunt.

“Our only hope is that he bows out, we have a brokered convention, or dies,” the donor adviser said. “Otherwise we are fucking dead.”

Biden was raspy from a cold, but also struggled to respond to questions. Early on in the debate, the president stumbled and appeared confused before stating, “We finally beat Medicare.”

“I mean it’s not great all around,” a down-ballot Democrat for statewide office told Politico. “Our president has a speech impediment, a cold, and is 81.”

“No one expected a master class in debating from Joe Biden, but no one expected this nose dive,” a senior aide to top Democratic officials told the publication. “He was bad on message, bad on substance, bad on counter punching, bad on presentation, bad on non-verbals. There was no bright spot in this debate for him. The only bright spot is that this happened in June and not October.”

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