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President Joe Biden had a rough night Thursday at the debate, but CNN moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash also turned in an abysmal performance of their own, according to The New Abnormal co-hosts Andy Levy and Danielle Moodie.
Neither moderator offered much in the way of follow-up questions or any fact checks for either candidate—something that CNN said in advance they were not going to do.
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Here's a round-up of 35 claims from the debate hosted by CNN.
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 CNN via YouTubeEx-Barack Obama adviser Van Jones' voice cracked as he searched for the words to describe Joe Biden's disaster of a debate on Thursday, musing that Democrats may need a new candidate to oppose Donald Trump.
Jones, now a CNN political analyst, was among the first on the network to break down Biden's performance, in which he sounded hoarse, gave incoherent answers, and looked lost for large swaths of the night.
"I love that guy. He's a good man. He loves his country. He's doing the best that he can," Jones said of Biden. "But he had a test to meet tonight to restore the confidence of the country and of the base. And he failed to do that."
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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."
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