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David Remnick: “Biden has rightly asserted that the voters regard this election not only as a debate about global affairs, the environment, civil rights, women’s rights, and other matters of…

From the Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board: “President Joe Biden’s debate performance was a disaster. His disjointed responses and dazed look sparked calls for him to drop out of the presidential…

I’ve never seen Democrats more divided. In the two days since Joe Biden gave a horrifically bad debate performance, it seems like half the party believes Democrats need a new…

Rick Wilson: “History is replete with bad debate performances: Clinton’s first outing in 1992, George W. Bush’s Boston groaner (I was there, and it was awful), and Obama’s first showing…

Stuart Stevens: “As a former Republican who spent decades pointing out flaws in the Democratic Party, I watch the current Democratic panic over President Biden’s debate performance with a mix…

“Some of the Biden administration’s top domestic priorities, from cracking down on power-plant pollution to bringing back net neutrality, are on shakier legal footing after a Supreme Court decision on…

The Biden campaign has raised $27 million starting from the day of the first presidential debate through Friday evening, CNBC reports. Bloomberg: Biden seeks to reassure anxious donors. Save to…

Susan Glasser: “Biden struggled so much that even several scathing pre-planned lines failed to land with any force, as when he brought up Trump’s hush-money conviction and said, ‘You have…

Tom Nichols: “I have been harshly critical of calls for President Joe Biden to step down. I have argued with people across the political spectrum about this, including friends and…

Nick Catoggio: “The race will now be a referendum not just on his first term but on his ability to remain lucid during a second, and there’s no way to…

George Will: “Perhaps the nation is by now in a torpor, resigned to the spectacle of, as the phrase goes, two bald men fighting over a comb. Perhaps, however, Thursday…

Brian Klaas: “Republican fealty to Donald Trump—no matter his crimes, no matter his moral transgressions—is the hallmark of authoritarian devotion to a man, regardless of policies or ideas. It’s the…

Axios: “The only way President Biden steps aside, despite his debate debacle, is if the same small group of lifelong loyalists who enabled his run suddenly — and shockingly —…

“Donald Trump’s top advisers are planning to drastically scale back and simplify the official platform of the Republican Party, according to a memo sent to the party’s platform committee,” the…

New York Times: “In those first stricken moments after a raspy, rambling and at times incoherent performance, he turned to his wife, Jill Biden… The first lady’s message to him…

“Amid all of the Democratic panic-texting prompted by President Joe Biden’s shaky debate performance Thursday, one name was curiously absent from many of those conversations: Vice President Kamala Harris,” Politico…

Dan Balz: “More than half a century ago, an embattled Democratic president decided unexpectedly not to run for reelection. The month was March, the year was 1968 and the president…

Sidney Blumenthal: “I saw western civilization pass before my eyes as Joe Biden drowned.” Save to Favorites

“I have to also be very honest with you and tell you that I think the president was not terribly articulate to say the least, and he was not focused….

“Nikki Haley, the runner-up to Donald Trump in this year’s GOP nomination race, said Democrats need to dump President Biden as their presumptive nominee following his halting debate performance as…