Democrats panicked at Bidens debate debacle and arent fooling anyone as they now pretend everythings fine

Only one word can appropriately sum up the scene across the political landscape during and immediately following President Biden and former President Donald Trump’s first debate.Panic.“Right now, as we speak, there is a deep, wide and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party,” reported CNN’s John King moments after the faceoff ended.Biden “wasn’t capable of doing any better than he did,” declared Chris Wallace.“The person we saw tonight, the president we saw tonight on that stage: Is that how he is every day?” Anderson Cooper asked Vice President Kamala Harris.On MSNBC, the Fates — Nicolle Wallace, Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid — played with Biden’s political thread.“He needed to settle Democrats,” said Reid.“He did the opposite of that.

He made them more panicked.”The panic made its way into print, too.Under the headline “A Fumbling Performance, and a Panicking Party,” The New York Times’ Peter Baker wrote, “Democrats who have defended the president for months” spent Thursday night trading “frenzied phone calls and text messages within minutes of the start of the debate.”The Times’ Tom Friedman, a personal friend of the president, said he had wept while watching Biden struggle and called on him to step aside.Not long after he did, the Gray Lady’s editorial board called for the same.“Our only hope is that he bows out, we have a brokered convention, or dies,” an adviser to Democratic donors told Politico.“Otherwise we are f–king dead.”As late as Friday afternoon, the panic showed no signs of abating.David Axelrod, the architect of Barack Obama’s successful presidential campaigns.

nodded along as one of his conservative CNN colleagues compared Biden’s re-election effort to the Titanic.“I think this is something he [Biden] needs to consider and those around him need to consider: What does he want his legacy to be?” added Axelrod.

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