The Fallout From Biden’s Subpar Debate Performance

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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U.S. President Joe Biden’s age and apparent frailty stole the show during the CNN presidential debate on June 27, overshadowing much of the domestic and foreign-policy issues discussed between him and his rival, former President Donald Trump. How is the debate being seen in the rest of the world? Political analysts Leslie Vinjamuri and Gideon Rachman join Ravi Agrawal to share their takeaways. Suggested reading: Michael Hirsh: Yes, Biden Flopped. But Let’s Not Overreact. Rishi Iyengar and Christina Lu: Key Foreign-Policy Moments From the Trump-Biden Debate Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware: How Bad Will Political Violence in the U.S. Get? Leslie Vinjamuri: What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.1	Wow. Yep, that is where I'm at right now. I'm recording this on the morning of Friday,
0:47.4	the 28th of June. A little over 12 hours ago, Joe Biden and Donald Trump finally went
0:52.7	head to head in the first presidential debate
0:55.3	of the 2024 election. Biden, who's been tracking behind Trump in most polls, had one primary
1:01.5	job to dispel fears he was getting too old to serve another four years. It is only the morning
1:07.9	after, but one thing is clear. Those fears about Biden's age have gotten a lot worse.
1:14.1	Take a listen.
1:14.6	Making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we finally
1:34.2	beat Medicare.
1:35.6	And then we woke up to these headlines.
1:38.1	In the New York Times, is Biden too old?
1:41.0	America got its answer.
1:43.0	Tom Friedman, also in the Times, Joe Biden is a good man and a good
1:47.3	president. He must bow out of the race. Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal, her words, not a headline,
1:54.2	allowing him to go on like this feels like elder abuse. A news headline in the Washington Post, Democrats panic over Biden doubting
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