from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, June 28.

Listeners, it's not for me to declare any results of last night's debate. It's for you, the public.

But before we even play any clips

or introduce our first guess, or for that reason, and I guess there are at least three ways to think

about last night's debate. One more generous to President Biden is debating is not governing,

right? You can think he's been a great president and his poor performance

on stage last night that everybody agrees he had is relevant only to the artificial world of television

debates. Another kind of generous to Biden is, yeah, he was halting and hoarse and lost his train

of thought a couple of times, but Trump told a blue streak of lies and promoted

an encyclopedia of dangerous policies. And that should really be the story this morning.

And then there's the third way to look at it, which is the way that's dominating the headlines.

The top New York Times headline this morning, Biden struggles as Trump blusters in contentious debate.

Next headline, Democrats talk about replacing Biden on the ticket. New York Times columnist, Michelle Goldberg, very pro-democrat, writes this about Biden.

There will now be a new chorus of cries for him to drop out, and I'll be joining it, Michelle Goldberg.

It's a similar story at the Washington Post.

Top headline, Democrats panic over Biden doubting his future.

USA Today, Team Biden wanted an early debate to shake up the presidential race.

This one did, but not in the way they wanted.

In the Top Wall Street Journal headline on their site this morning, straightforward,

Democrats discuss replacing Biden on presidential ticket.

For those of you who didn't see the debate last night or listen to it,

here's Biden from his first answer of the night on inflation that had people

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