Late last month as I watched President Biden flail in his first presidential debate against Donald Trump. I kept telling people I wanted just one thing.

A peek at the texts of just about any elected official to confirm, were they seeing what I was seeing?

So when I called up Congressman Mike Quigley this week, I straight up asked asked what was going on in your

DMs that night. I was getting a ton of texting messages and phone calls

from constituents, friends, family, staff.

What were they saying to you?

You know, different waves of panic.

A lot of WTF.

Congressman Quigley is a Democrat,

represents Illinois Fifth District, which is part of Chicago in its suburbs.

He's been on the hill for 15 years.

He says the debate was sad for him to watch, like it was for a lot of people.

And I thought the worst part of this was the visual

at the end of the debate after the debacle that it was

with the first lady walking across the stage and him needing her help to get

downstairs.

But after But afterwards, Representative Quigley didn't just ring his hands in private.

Instead, he started showing up on cable news.

At first he simply implied he was open to a new nominee for president.

After a few days, though, he got more blunt,

saying Biden simply can't be at the top of the ticket.

One of the first bits of advice I got in politics is you're barking with the big dogs now get over it.

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