BTRTN: Democrats at DefCon One... Biden Has an Epic Fail, and Panic Ensues
Born To Run The Numbers's take on last night's debate, which was the worst-case scenario: both candidates validated our gravest worries about their liabilities. Biden appeared old, weak, and muddled, and Trump is more of a pathological liar than ever:
http://www.borntorunthenumbersarchive.com/2024/06/btrtn-democrats-at-defcon-one-biden-has.html
Excerpts: "In the first Presidential Debate of the 2024 cycle, Joe Biden had an epic fail... sentences trailed off. He stuttered. He paused, appearing to lose his thread.The timbre of his voice was thin. He appeared shriveled and diminished behind his podium. It’s the oldest saw: debates are decided by visual appearance, not by policy discussion or political philosophy. By that measure, Donald Trump won the debate. The problem: Donald Trump was lying every time he opened his mouth. Trump did not win the debate. Biden lost it...
"It only takes one moment of plutonium-grade toxicity in a presidential debate to bring down a candidacy. Sadly, it must be reported that Joe Biden’s performance last night was not just one moment. It was an entire evening… it was the Chernobyl of Presidential debates. He was simply unable to do anything to shut down the fire hose of bellicose, brazenly deceitful self-aggrandizement flowing from the former President. He let Trump define the debate, and Trump defined a fantasy world in which his Presidency was perfect, and Joe Biden has ruined all the greatness of the Trump administration...
"When a debate weakness reinforces a core concern, its impact is multiplied. When an entire evening reinforces that concern, a narrative forms. In the the 24-hour news cycle, it becomes a snowball racing down a mountain, gaining mass and velocity...
"The real story tonight, for anyone who could see it, was not Joe Biden. It was that we absolutely must defeat Donald Trump in November. The man is unstable, delusional, morally bankrupt, cruel, and yes, very capable of destroying our democracy. Re-electing Joe Biden is not how I’d phrase the objective. Our objective is to defeat Donald Trump. If last night made clear that someone else may have a better chance of beating Donald Trump than Joe Biden, then maybe this debate was not the utter disaster that it feels like at 12:38 a.m. on Friday, June 28."