Following President Joe Biden’s expected poor performance during the first presidential debate on Thursday, there is now a “deep, a wide, and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party,” insiders are warning.
Shortly after the debate between Biden and President Donald Trump concluded, corporate media outlets began raising the alarm.
John King, the chief national correspondent for CNN, revealed that high-profile Democrats started panicking “minutes into the debate.”
King revealed that Democrats are now scrambling to replace Biden on the 2024 ticket “because they feel this debate was so terrible.”
Speaking with anchor Anderson Cooper on CNN, King said:
“Right now, as we speak, there is a deep, a wide, and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party.
“It started minutes into the debate, and it continues right now.
“It involves party strategists, it involves elected officials, it involves fundraisers.
“And they are having conversations about the president’s performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket.
“And they’re having conversations about what they should do about it,” King revealed.
“Some of those conversations include, should we go to the White House and ask the president to step aside.
“Other of the conversations are about should prominent Democrats go public with that call because they feel this debate was so terrible.”
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Biden has immediately faced calls to drop out of the presidential race following his catastrophic debate with Trump.
The president’s campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt declared early this morning: “Of course he’s not dropping out.”
However, the issue that Biden is not fit for office has now apparently hit home with the Democrats.
A torrent of Biden’s own party members and strategists are clamoring for their struggling president to throw in the towel off the back of the car-crash debate.
One anonymous Democrat reportedly told NBC it was “time to talk about an open convention and a new Democratic nominee.”
“Biden is about to face a crescendo of calls to step aside,” one Biden-backing strategist told The New York Times.
Another Democrat put it even more flatly to the Washington Post, declaring that “We’re so f**ked.”
“He has great material. He just cannot deliver a single line.”
David Plouffe, a Democratic strategist who worked on Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, told MSNBC that Biden’s showing was “kind of a DEFCON1 moment.”
Plouffe also remarked that Trump and Biden looked “30 years apart,” despite an age gap of just three years between them.
One political analyst summed it up in the hours following the torturous 90-minute ordeal, saying:
“There’s going to be a lot of bedwetting (among Democrats) tonight.”
Trump meanwhile was seen contorting his face in shock and derision at Biden’s confused meandering and frequent gaffes in the debate, at one point telling millions of Americans watching at home:
“I really don’t know what he [Biden] just said.”
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“He’s not equipped to be president,” Trump added.
“You know it and I know it.”
After having expended his limited mental energy on the stand, the president stopped off at a Waffle House for a bite to eat with his wife Jill but was confronted by patrons over his sorry showing.
“Some are concerned that you’re not fit for the job… do you have any concerns about your performance?” one customer asked Biden.
“Well… it’s hard to debate a liar,” Biden shot back.
However, Biden was powerless to distract from the reality of his performance – something Trump’s team has gleefully made light of.
The Trump campaign compiled all of Biden’s mumbling and bumbling in a video entitled: “Needless to say, the drugs didn’t work.”
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Needless to say, the drugs didn't work. pic.twitter.com/3lYHnU476w
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) June 28, 2024
Meanwhile, multiple left-wing corporate media talking heads are continuing to raise the alarm.
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Of course, it’s extremely unlikely that Biden’s performance was a surprise to any top Democrats.
If Biden is going to be replaced, it would have been planned months ago.
The only question remains: Who the Democrat elite select as Biden’s replacement?
