Thursday’s debate couldn’t have gone worse for Joe Biden. But it wasn’t just his own doing. Over the course of the 90-minute debate, the president was repeatedly upstaged by Donald Trump, who took control from the outset by unleashing an onslaught of invectives that Biden could not match.
The drop in the number of debate viewers, from 73 million to 48 million, was not surprising, since the Biden-Trump debate occurred so early in the election cycle.
The former president drew a contrast between Biden and Trump, saying Thursday’s debate doesn’t change the fundamental choice presented in the election.
Dean Phillips, who launched a long-shot presidential primary challenge against President Joe Biden, is keeping quiet for now. The Minnesota Democrat was silent amid the Democratic freak-out over the president’s debate performance Thursday night.
President Joe Biden opened the debate with a raspy voice and disjointed, rambling answers, reigniting Democratic concerns about his age and ability to take on Donald Trump. Many of the president’s answers were hard to follow.
Biden has time to turn his campaign around, but is he up to the task? Can he persuade voters to forget what they saw Thursday night and reassess his fitness to serve a second term?
Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s campaign first declined to say whether she supported Biden as nominee, then sent a terse response: “Tammy supports the president.”
In the spin room after the first presidential debate on June 27, GOP reps. took a victory lap for former president Trump, while Democrats defended President Biden.
Former president Donald Trump and President Biden argued over who is better at golf at their June 27 debate. Each man said he'd take on the other in a round.
Biden won Georgia ecent polling this year minds of undecided voters raised $10 million a whopping $34.8 million Robert F. Kennedy Jr didn’t meet the qualifications a Real Clear Politics average of polling This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Who won the Biden-Trump debate?
What we can say, though, is that first hour in particular robustly reinforced President Biden’s most significant weakness. If anything might shift the polls or the trajectory of the race, that might be it.
More: Joe Biden is old. So is Donald Trump. So are millions of other American workers Biden is the oldest American president at 81, and assumed office at age 78. Presidential debate live updates: Follow along for live coverage from across the USA TODAY Network Trump was born on June 14,
Former president Donald Trump was relatively restrained but still got combative and mocked Biden’s mental acuity in the early going of Thursday’s debate.
Continue reading CNN, the host for the first debate, has not revealed how many or which topics will be covered. Debates since 2012, which were run by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), generally featured six major 15-minute segments that each covered an important issue.