Maybe Joe Biden Isn’t Toast
The chattering class keeps counting President Joe Biden out and he keeps rising from the ashes.
“A Fumbling Performance, and a Panicking Party,” chimed in Peter Baker for the New York Times. “President Biden’s shaky, halting debate performance has top Democrats talking about replacing him on the ticket.”
“President Biden hoped to build fresh momentum for his re-election bid by agreeing to debate two months before he is formally nominated,” began Barker. “Instead, his halting and disjointed performance on Thursday night prompted a wave of panic among Democrats and reopened discussion of whether he should be the nominee at all.”
“Democrats who have defended the president for months against his doubters — including members of his own administration — traded frenzied phone calls and text messages within minutes of the start of the debate as it became clear that Mr. Biden was not at his sharpest.”
“Time to Go, Joe,” Mark Leibovich wrote blisteringly for The Atlantic. “President Joe Biden needs to end his campaign. The first presidential debate, held last night, was a disaster. It was clear from the outset that Biden looked old, sounded old, and yes, is in fact very, very old.”
“Panic seemed to set in among Democrats within minutes of the candidates taking the stage — on social media, at…