I am on my mind.

We're alive from Georgia, a key battleground state in the race for the White House.

That's not President Biden and slumber, President Donald Trump took to the stage,

hosted by CNN the conversation focused more on personal attacks

than policy. He can't hit a ball 50 yards he challenged me to a golf match. He can't hit a ball 50 yards. He challenged me to a golf match. He can't hit a ball 50 yards.

Throughout the night, Trump rattled off strings of lives that largely went unchecked.

During my four years, I had the best environmental numbers ever.

Biden, meanwhile, sounded meandering and unsteady. Dealing with everything we have to do with,

look, if we finally beat Medicare.

Jimel Bowie is a columnist in New York Times.

He writes about politics with an eye toward history.

He joined me Friday morning to help make sense

of what happened last night and what it could mean for the 2024 election.

Jamel going into the debate,

expectations were very low for both candidates.

How did each one of them bear from your perspective?

You know, I think no one who watched this could say with any honesty that President Biden did a good job. He was stuttering, he had a raspy, quiet voice. He very much, if the big criticism or big worry about

Biden has been his age, his performance kind of just reinforce all of those

worries and then some.

And although I do think that over the course of the debate, he got a little stronger,, got a little bit better footing. No one, I mean, there was a U-Gov poll that said that about

22% of people, you know, watched partially and then like went somewhere, did something else,

which I think is a totally reasonable reaction to have, which is to say that like most people who watch this thing or many people watch this thing likely did not see

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