I watched most of the debate last night between Biden and Trump. I didn't think Trump did all that well, although he got some good zingers in at Biden; but Biden did terrible and looked terrible, even considering everything CNN did to make it easy on him such as adding commercial breaks so he would have rest periods (a first for a presidential debate), removing all the distractions normal to such debates, and cutting from Biden when he started to lose his train of thought. He was somewhat spotty for most of the debate, but you could see Biden's drugs rapidly lose their effectiveness at about the 54 minute mark.
The more interesting part to me was the post-debate analysis by the CNN talking heads. While there was the occasional comment that Trump lied (i.e., he didn't parrot their narrative even though their narrative had been debunked) and avoided answering certain questions (unlike Biden who answered sensitive questions of foreign policy, making it clear that Hamas could not trust him in any peace negotiations and daring Russia to start a nuclear war), the majority of comments were about how terrible Biden looked, anger that the White House had been lying about Biden's condition, fear that Biden would cause downstream Democrat candidates lose their elections, and concluding that Biden must not be on the ballot this fall. And this was not just their own thoughts, but repeating what they were hearing from other Democrat officials and politicians. The issue now is whether a call for Biden to step down should be first made privately or publicly.
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