Biden’s Disastrous Debate Accelerates Doubts Over His Candidacy
President Joe Biden’s gamble that a debate with Donald Trump would boost his moribund reelection campaign failed.
Biden misspoke numerous times during last night’s debate, citing incorrect facts and figures. His remarks were soft-spoken, meandering, and punctuated by coughing. He routinely botched scripted attacks on the former president, and froze at the end of one rambling answer.
Trump was not without his own foibles, characteristically delivering responses riddled with falsehoods and exaggerations, while refusing to commit to accepting the results of November’s election.
Democrats publicly and privately expressed alarm in the ...