{"id":235553,"date":"2024-06-27T23:51:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T03:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=235553"},"modified":"2024-06-27T23:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T03:51:39","slug":"hysterical-dems-freak-out-over-bidens-debate-performance-biden-is-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=235553","title":{"rendered":"HYSTERICAL!!! Dems freak out over Biden\u2019s debate performance: \u2018Biden is toast\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"story-text__paragraph  \"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/06\/27\/biden-debate-opening-concerns-00165595\">READ HERE<\/a><\/strong>: President Joe Biden opened the debate with a raspy voice and disjointed, rambling answers, reigniting Democratic concerns about his age and ability to take on former President Donald Trump.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">Many of the president\u2019s answers were hard to follow. At one point, seemingly losing his train of thought, Biden said \u201cwe finally beat Medicare,\u201d misspeaking about his own policy on earned benefits.<\/h3>\n<h3>In text messages with POLITICO, Democrats expressed confusion and concern as they watched the first minutes of the event. One former Biden White House and campaign aide called it \u201cterrible,\u201d adding that they have had to ask themselves over and over \u201cWhat did he just say? This is crazy.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">Another veteran Democratic operative texted, \u201cBiden seems to have needed a few minutes to warm up. I wonder if the lack of an audience was the right decision. And poor guy needs a tea. Maybe a whiskey.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">Jay Surdukowski, an attorney and Democratic activist from New Hampshire who co-chaired Martin O\u2019Malley\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign in the state, said, \u201cBiden is toast \u2014 calling it now.\u201d<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph  \">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}