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In a testy, personal clash, President Biden failed to ease worries about his age, Donald Trump forcefully made his case (with wild claims and exaggerations) and the moderators held their fact-checking fire.
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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/ReutersIf Vladimir Putin got up early to watch the U.S. presidential debate, he might have called for a bottle of champagne to go with his breakfast.
It is impossible to imagine that Putin would not have loved what he saw and heard. His candidate, Donald Trump—a man whose election in November would guarantee Putin's victory in Ukraine and open the door to his conquest of Europe and the downfall of democracy in America—appeared to move closer to victory in November. Meanwhile, Trump's opponent, the only man who stands between Putin and Trump and their desired goals, seemed to struggle.
Admittedly, one of the reasons President Joe Biden seemed muted, especially at first, was that he had a cold. Another was that Trump produced such a tsunami of lies, that Biden hardly knew where to fact check or call him out first. It was a tactic straight out of the playbook of one of Putin's favorite generals, soon-to-be-jailbird, Mr. "Flood the Zone with Shit," Steve Bannon.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/ReutersAn old country song laments that "The whiskey ain't working anymore." Along those lines, the theme of Joe Biden's debate performance Thursday night could probably be summed up as: The caffeine ain't working anymore.
I'm talking, of course, about Republican theories suggesting that Biden's solid State of the Union performance was enhanced by Mountain Dew and caffeine (or something much stronger), and that he would be "jacked up" for this first presidential debate.
Instead, Biden's hoarse voice and aged appearance were on full display. But his stumbles only reinforced the sense that Biden was too old for the job. During one confused moment—sure to be a soundbite that is repeated over and over—Biden ended a botched response with the confusing words, "We finally beat Medicare."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Border security, Middle East unrest, and support for Ukraine will likely dominate foreign-policy talking points.
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The independent presidential candidate answered the same questions that the CNN hosts asked of former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden.
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Donald Trump and President Biden are set to take the debate stage at 9 p.m. Thursday for the first time in 2024.
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 Rebecca Noble/ReutersIndependent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to make the cut for CNN's debate on Thursday night—so he planned to debate himself instead.
Libertarian former Fox Business host John Stossel announced Thursday evening that he would be "moderating" the alternate debate, which would be livestreamed on Elon Musk's X platform. A big screen next to Kennedy would air the actual debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and Kennedy would provide his own answers to the questions posed to Biden and Trump, Stossel said. As for the actual debating part of the alternate debate, Stossel didn't say.
In a post on X, RFK Jr. said he expected the main event to be nothing more than "arguments, name calling, accusations, and culture war issues- but no debate on most of the subjects that matter to Americans."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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