Democrats wasted no time in discussing the possibility of replacing President Joe Biden on the ballot for the November election during Thursday night’s presidential debate, which lasted only thirty minutes.

Months ahead of schedule, Biden and former President Donald Trump had an unexpected meeting. The faceoff was moderated by CNN’s Dana Bash and Jake Tapper in a studio setting without a live audience, commercial breaks, or mic cuts. Despite Biden’s week-long preparation period, his age of 81 was evident as he struggled to engage with the composed former Trump.

“Every Democrat I know is texting that this is bad,” Obama campaign alumnus Ravi Gupta tweeted just 15 minutes into the debate.

“Just say it publicly and begin the hard work of creating space in the convention for a selection process. I’ll vote for a corpse over Trump, but this is a suicide mission,” Gupta continued.

Half an hour into the debate, an op-ed was released by the New York Times discussing the “intense anxiety” expressed by senior Democrats, as reported by the deputy opinion editor. The article labeled his actions as a “catastrophe.”

“I love Joe Biden, he didn’t do well at all,” Van Jones, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, said during a solemn CNN post-debate show.

“We are still far from our convention and there is still time to figure out a different way forward if he will allow us to do that,” Jones added.

A few minutes into the discussion, the president’s initial falsehood emerged when he asserted that he is the first president in the last ten years to have no American casualties abroad. Biden neglected to acknowledge the unfortunate loss of 13 service members during the mishandled Afghanistan withdrawal under his administration in August 2021.

“When he was president, there were still killing people in Afghanistan, and he didn’t do anything about that,” Biden said. “When he was president, we still found ourselves in a position where you had a notion that we were the safe country. The truth is, I’m the only president [in] this century, that doesn’t have any — this decade — that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world.”

Shortly after, the president experienced a momentary stumble before abruptly freezing up while responding to a query regarding the national debt and taxes. Tapper swiftly intervened, coming to the president’s aid by promptly interrupting Biden and redirecting a question towards Trump.

“We would be able to wipe out his debt, we’d be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do, childcare, eldercare, making sure that we continue to strengthen our healthcare system, making sure that we are able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I have been able to do with the COVID – excuse me, dealing with everything we have to do with,” the president continued before pausing and looking down.

“Look, we finally beat Medicare,” Biden said.

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“Guys, the Dems should nominate someone else — before it’s too late,” former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang wrote on twitter.


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