The Junk Food Media And Biden’s Bad Night!

Mr. President, we got a problem.

The CNN debate is now in the history books. The quarterbacking begins.

Winners and losers of 2024.

When Sean "Softball" Hannity praises the CNN hosts for a "fair debate", you know it was bad for President Joe Biden.

Having a bad debate night doesn't mean much but it does strike concern and Democrats and maybe even Biden might be aware of it.

The junk food media covered the presidential debate between Biden and former president Donald J. Trump. I will say despite the deflecting, the misinformation, the bloviating and the attempts to interrupt the president and hosts, Trump had a good night.

Biden played right into Trump’s scheme of deflecting. Biden pausing to make a statement and the stuttering got the most attention.

Trump still refused to accept the results of the election.

Trump and Biden had misled the American people on a handful of issues.

Even with the question of child care was deflected by Trump and Biden.

Dana Bash and Jake Tapper did a terrible job of controlling Trump from going overboard with the rhetoric.

Biden’s delivery from the beginning of the debate drew the most attention afterward. Trump’s allies immediately declared victory while prominent Democrats publicly questioned whether Biden could move forward.

Biden appeared to lose his train of thought while giving one answer, drifting from an answer on tax policy to health policy, at one point using the word “COVID,” and then saying, “excuse me, with, dealing with,” and he trailed off again.

At least, First Lady, Dr. Jill Biden was there to support her husband. Former first lady Melania Trump was not there.

“Look, we finally beat Medicare,” Biden said, as his time ran out on his answer.

Yeah, that was where our quarterbacking and concerns began.

“I think the panic had set in,” said David Axelrod, a longtime advisor to former President Barack Obama on CNN, immediately after the debate about Biden’s performance. “And I think you’re going to hear discussions that, I don’t know will lead to anything, but there are going to be discussions about whether he should continue.”

Said Van Jones, another Democratic strategist, on CNN: “He did not do well at all.”

Rosemarie DeAngelis, a Democrat who watched the debate at a party in South Portland, Maine, said she felt Biden gave the right answers to Trump but “didn’t have the spark that we needed tonight.”

Biden repeatedly tore into Trump in an apparent effort to provoke him, bringing up everything from the former president’s recent felony conviction to his alleged insult of World War I veterans to his weight. The 78-year-old Trump declined to clearly state he would accept the results of the November election, four years after he promoted conspiracy theories about his loss that culminated in the Jan. 6 insurrection, and repeatedly misstated the record from his time in office.