The Old Man And The Con Man

I didn't need to see the debate to know what the outcome would be. Smelvis is a constant liar who believes his own lies.

President Biden is old and he stutters sometimes. They're both old.

TSF, couldn't answer questions posed to him, but answered questions that he made up.

TSF, stood up and looked strait at the camera and gaslit and lied through the whole debate on national tv.

The 'optics' looks like TSF had won. Biden was not in top form, that's a given, but his answers were clean, confidant, and honest.

I STILL STRONGLY support President Biden. He's had our backs, and I will keep watch over his back.

It's a shame that one bad performance by the president would make someone lose faith, when he has showed us how good of a leader he is.

Yeah, I'm embarrassed for President Biden, and if you listened instead of watch, he performed much better than the liar.

It's hard to debate a liar.

Shoving in a new candidate at the last minute is as much of path to defeat as the hand-wringing Democrats are crying themselves into the fantasy of pushing Biden aside (with sensitivity, of course). Biden's team performed horribly in pushing for the pageant-debate in the first place (not a Biden strength ever throughout his entire career), over-preparing him for a debate-style forum when he all he really needed was preparation to refute Cry-Baby-trump's lies, insisting on no audience and shut-off microphones creating too sterile of an environment for any speaker, and putting so much emphasis on podium placement. Additionally, the form of the event was downright stupid. The (usually respectable) moderators simply read their questions; there were no challenges to all the lies. CNN could have saved money and just projected the questions on a screen. The moderators did offer some added value by being subtle in reminding both candidates when they didn't answer the question, but that wasn't worth their salary expense.

So, now what should not be done... literally tossing Biden aside because he's no longer useful. Instead of the Biden team figuring out how get Biden to step aside, they need to reflect and critically analyze how incompetent they were and... AND... what they must do to better to elevate their already selected best candidate to advance the interests of the USA.

Biden (and his team) have a lot of repair work to do. The good news is Cry-Baby-trump isn't going anywhere either and he will provide plenty more lay-up shots for Biden to prove it's never too late recycle a loss into a win. And, in this case there really is no other viable option.

If it's not too late already, this needs to happen quickly and decisively. It also needs to come from his own team. If an attempt to get him to stand down fails, then it does even more damage and give trump even more attack lines.

You were right when you said he should never have stood.

Not really the answer. The only option is totally unacceptable to independents who are opposed to a woman being in office, much less being slightly more liberal.

The only answer is to stick with Biden and hope for the best this close to the election.

I give kudos to Camila though for defending Biden so well. That shows loyalty!

You put Camilla in though and you just have made certain that independents switch to Trump. It's why Trump won against Hillary.

Independents simply don't want a woman much less a liberal woman as president.

I would be all for Harris if it wasn't for the independent crowd.

I didn't see the debate as I was working, but they need independent verification during the debate to actually call out lies and disinformation. If Trump (or Biden) makes a claim, then they should varify the accuracy of what is stated. Not later, not in another news item the following day, but there and then, during the live debate.