{"id":2285097,"date":"2024-06-28T01:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-just-had-the-most-disastrous-debate-in-presidential-history\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T01:57:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T05:57:26","slug":"biden-just-had-the-most-disastrous-debate-in-presidential-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-just-had-the-most-disastrous-debate-in-presidential-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Just Had The Most Disastrous Debate In Presidential History"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-just-had-the-most-disastrous-debate-in-presidential-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2285097&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text discusses\u200b what\u2063 the author \u200bperceives as a significantly poor performance\u200b by President Joe Biden in his first debate against Donald Trump. The author describes Biden&#8217;s presentation as chaotic and incoherent, marked by a scratchy, frail voice and rapid, unclear speech. The debate was\u2062 widely criticized and \u2062seen as \u200ca moment that dramatically\u2062 shook the\u200c political party. It\u2019s mentioned that it was a strategic error for Biden\u2019s team, who were already down in the poll rankings, to push for this debate. Moreover, the custom\u200d debate format by CNN, although intended to limit Trump\u2019s erratic tendencies, inadvertently highlighted Biden\u2019s verbal struggles. The \u2062text criticizes the media and Biden&#8217;s\u200c handlers\u200d for allegedly covering up his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-schools-commissioner-will-try-to-force-schools-to-reopen-over-teachers-union-objections\/\" title=\"Massachusetts Schools Commissioner Will Try To Force Schools To Reopen Over Teachers Union Objections\">deteriorating mental<\/a> and \u2064physical state, while also accusing the media of previously\u200c shielding him during his 2020 campaign. The negative portrayal stresses a need for scrutiny over Biden&#8217;s ability\u200b to serve, highlighting past instances of his\u200d faltering public appearances.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sure, it might sound like hyperbole, but I can\u2019t think of a more devastating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-v-8wJkmwBY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">presidential debate<\/a><\/a> performance than the one Joe Biden had in his first meeting with Donald Trump. Indeed, even with abnormally low expectations, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-fall-trip-air-force-stage-sandbag-79427949848742048600171770e33bc9#:~:text=Two%20small%20black%20sandbags%20had,while%20he%20was%20shaking%20hands.%E2%80%9D\">tripped<\/a> over them as if they were sandbags. After watching post-debate reaction, it\u2019s safe to say no presidential debate has ever rattled a political party quite like this one.<\/p>\n<p>The scratchy and frail voice. The speedy mumbling \u2014 it was like watching a TV at 2x speed. The overall incoherence. The confused and angry stares. The jumbling of thoughts \u2014\u201cI was recently in, in, in, um, France for D-Day, and I spoke to \u2014 all about those heroes that died \u2026\u201d and so on \u2014 was relentless. It was difficult to watch.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Biden\u2019s team, down in the polls, pushed for this debate. Remember that video the president cut mocking and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1790713878248038478\">challenging<\/a> Trump to face him? The Biden team reportedly fought for the strict rules implemented by CNN. Then the president took an entire week off from his job just to prepare for the contest. Letting him debate was political malpractice. Letting him run for the presidency is a dereliction of basic decency.<\/p>\n<p>You remember all that solemn talk about 25th Amendment during Trump\u2019s presidency? Where are these patriots now?<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, CNN\u2019s debate format was \u2014 whether the former president liked it or not \u2014 good for Trump. It reined in many of his worst inclinations, while leaving Biden to wander off into verbal dead ends. And though CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper tried to save Biden once or twice, it\u2019s fair to say, on balance, the questions weren\u2019t terrible.<\/p>\n<p>Many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-colorado-springs-shooting-claims-to-be-non-binary-uses-they-them-pronouns\/\" title=\"Suspect In Colorado Springs Shooting Claims To Be \u2018Non-Binary,\u2019 Uses \u2018They\/Them\u2019 Pronouns\">left-wing talking heads<\/a>, who\u2019ve apparently been living in a hermetically sealed partisan bubble, were shocked by Biden\u2019s performance. Maybe had deluded themselves, as Biden had risen to big occasions in the past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/20\/joe-biden-is-not-ok\/\">None<\/a> of it, though, was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/18\/stop-trying-to-convince-me-joe-biden-isnt-a-confused-doddering-old-man\/\">surprising<\/a>. In 2020, the media insulated Biden and let him run his campaign from the comfort of his home. The press has been covering up his increasingly fragile mental and physical state since then.<\/p>\n<p>And in the past year, Biden\u2019s acuity has taken a nose-dive, which was evident to anyone who witnessed the octogenarian president awkwardly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/16\/us-news\/biden-appears-to-freeze-up-has-to-be-led-off-stage-by-obama-at-mega-bucks-la-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">freezing up on stage<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qpI9D9jcz-A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wandering off into fields<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/04\/15\/joe-biden-mocked-shaking-hands-thin-air-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shaking hands with ghosts<\/a>. Even a week ago, every media outlet was still gaslighting the country about Biden\u2019s struggles. This time, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-knives-come-out-for-biden-as-contenders-crop-up-for-2024\/\" title=\"The Knives Come Out for Biden as Contenders Crop Up for 2024\">president couldn\u2019<\/a>t hide.<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing Twittersphere has been ludicrously blaming CNN for failing to fact-check Trump \u2014 as if the Republican was the only one lying out there. Even when coherent, Biden was as mendacious as ever. He <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/28\/here-are-the-20-biggest-whoppers-biden-told-during-his-debate-with-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lied<\/a> about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/09\/joe-biden-needs-to-stop-lying-to-gold-star-families-that-his-son-died-in-iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his son Beau<\/a>. He lied about Trump calling neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville \u201cvery fine people.\u201d He lied about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotton.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/cotton-biden-administration-is-delaying-arms-shipments-to-israel-to-undermine-our-ally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">withholding weapons<\/a> from Israel. He lied about his border policies. He lied when he claimed that no American soldiers had died under his watch \u2014 ignoring the 13 servicemen who were murdered during his administration\u2019s incompetent Afghanistan withdrawal. And that was just the start.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that even without Biden\u2019s competency issues, Trump was already leading in most polls and on most issues. Now, I\u2019m generally skeptical that presidential debates move enough votes to make much of a difference. This may be an outlier. Trump may still lose, but no sentient voter still believes Biden is OK.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may seem exaggerated, but Joe Biden&#8217;s first debate with Donald Trump was disastrously poor. Despite very low expectations, Biden still underperformed, stumbling as if hindered by sandbags. Post-debate reactions confirm it was a historically weak performance for a presidential candidate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":2285098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Biden-Trump.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,3896,3849],"class_list":["post-2285097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-debate","tag-presidential"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Biden-Trump.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}