The liberal podcast “Pod Save America” co-hosts expressed their distress over President Joe Biden’s poor performance in Thursday night’s debate. They, along with other Democrats and liberal commentators, were alarmed by Biden’s hoarse voice and his struggle to articulate his thoughts during the debate. Jon Favreau, a former chief speechwriter for ex-President Barack Obama, described the debate as a “disaster” and the “worst” he had ever seen.
“You don’t listen to us to sugarcoat anything, I think it was a fucking disaster,” Favreau said. “I think it was like the worst debate I’d ever seen in my entire life. Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, Donald Trump is just a despicable human being, he should not be president. We have to do literally everything we possibly can to make sure he is not president again and that is why it was so fucking awful because Joe Biden just in every single way failed at that debate. And, I don’t know what else to say there … but it was a disaster.”
Tommy Viator claimed that Biden has only worsened worries about his age and mental acuity, highlighting Biden’s inability to demonstrate his readiness to serve another term.
“And I believe that tonight’s performance is not a reflection on the type of president that he is. But it is a very concerning piece of evidence about the kind of candidate he will be in this race. Because you need to ultimately be able to defend your record and make the case against Trump,” host Dan Pfeiffer said.
“The most important job that Joe Biden has as President of the United States is to beat Donald Trump and unfortunately, he went into this debate, he was behind. His job was to overcome that dynamic and change it,” Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter, said.
“He emphasized it, and for the same sense of decency, and empathy and patriotism that led Joe Biden to run, I believe this is a moment to at least have a big, open conversation about the best thing he can do for America is to end his presidency as the success it deserves to be on whether or not he should step aside and already … because the stakes are so high, you see people afraid to have that conversation, and fine. But what I don’t appreciate is people immediately saying well, we know Joe Biden won’t step aside. We know Joe Biden won’t do this, won’t do that. I don’t know what Joe Biden’s gonna do.”
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