“President Biden brushed off Democrats’ complaints about his performance at the debate with former President Donald Trump and indicated that he had no plans to rethink his candidacy,” the New York Times reports. Asked about Democrats’ concerns about his showing and calls for him to consider dropping out of the race, he said: “No. It’s hard to debate a liar.”
CNN - Trump’s repeat falsehoods included his assertions that some Democratic-led states allow babies to be executed after birth, that every legal scholar and everybody in general wanted Roe v. Wade overturned, that there were no terror attacks during his presidency, that Iran didn’t fund terror groups during his presidency, that the US has provided more aid to Ukraine than Europe has, that Biden for years referred to Black people as “super predators,” that Biden is planning to quadruple people’s taxes, that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guard troops for the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, that Americans don’t pay the cost of his tariffs on China and other countries, that Europe accepts no American cars, that he is the president who got the Veterans Choice program through Congress, and that fraud marred the results of the 2020 election. Trump also added some new false claims, such as his assertions that the US currently has its biggest budget deficit and its biggest trade deficit with China. Both records actually occurred under Trump.
Biden made at least nine false or misleading claims in the debate. He used false numbers while describing two of his key Medicare policies, falsely claimed that no US troops had been killed on his watch, repeated his usual misleading figure about billionaires’ tax rates, baselessly claimed that Trump wants to eliminate Social Security, falsely said that the unemployment rate was 15% when he took office, inaccurately said that the Border Patrol union had endorsed him before clarifying that he was talking about agents’ support for the border bill he had backed, and exaggerated Trump’s 2020 comments about the possibility of treating Covid-19 by injecting disinfectant.
Here is a detailed fact check from CNN’s reporting team.
On CNN,
Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s former communications director, said: “It was
a really disappointing debate performance from Joe Biden. I don’t think
there’s any other way to slice it.”
NBC News - Party rules make it almost impossible to replace nominees without their consent, let alone smoothly replace them with someone else. And doing so would amount to party insiders overturning the results of primaries in which Democratic voters overwhelmingly nominated Biden. He won almost 99% of all delegates.
CNN -According to a CNN flash poll, 67% of debate watchers said Trump turned in a better performance, compared to 33% for Biden.
NBC News - Among the reactions from Democratic lawmakers post-debate:
→ "This was like a champion boxer who gets in the ring past his prime and needs his corner to throw in the towel," one said, adding that he meant Biden should exit the race.
→ It's "time to talk about an open convention and a new Democratic nominee," said another, who had been a solid Biden supporter.
The fear among these Democrats is that the version of Biden that showed up to the debate cannot win in November. Despite the wishes of some Dems that another nominee take on Trump, there is much to consider — and multiple reasons why the options for a switch are limited. Full story.
NY Times - Times Opinion asked 12 of our columnists and contributors to watch the presidential debate on Thursday night, assess who won and who lost and distill what stood out to them. They rated the candidates on a scale of 0 to 5: 0 means the night didn’t change anything; 5 means one man triumphed.
The Results: 5 NY Times columnists and contributors gave Trump 5 points, 2 gave him 4. 2 thought it was a draw and none say Biden as the winner.
NPR - Here are three fact checks of claims made during the debate related to immigration:
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