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Watergate Reporter Carl Bernstein Says Biden’s Trainwreck Debate Was ‘Not a One Off’

DB Cooper

Posted 9:00 pm, 07/02/2024

It's really true! Orange man bad!

The 24 hours after a noticeably more orange President Joe Biden addressed the public for five minutes and left without answering questions have not gone well.

When Biden took the debate stage Thursday evening, he was pale with a noticeably raspy voice as he stumbled through answers and appeared to be lost. All but thirty minutes into the debate, Democrats descended into panic, calling for the leader of their party to drop out of the presidential race with just four months until election day. Since, the Biden campaign has been in damage control mode, and faced an even rougher Tuesday.

The president, seemingly more tan, gave unplanned remarks on Monday to address the Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity. Since his first major appearance post-debate, Biden's press secretary has taken questions on whether he has dementia, stories have published about concern for the president's mental fitness and internal polling has leaked showing the implications his performance might have. About an hour before White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre faced reporters in the briefing room for the first time since the debate, a few troublesome stories dropped. First, Democratic Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett became the first congressional Democrat to publicly call for Biden to drop out of the race.


DB Cooper

Posted 8:51 pm, 07/02/2024

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre faced a barrage of questions at her first briefing since the president's trainwreck debate. The grilling comes after famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says President Biden's poor performance was no surprise to his friends.

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