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For the love of God, Go, Joe

For the love of God, Go, Joe

And if he won't, he has no choice but to debate Trump again.

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There are three ways last night’s debate could have gone worse for President Biden:

  1. He could have suffered a debilitating stroke mid-debate.

  2. A rogue meteor could have struck the earth, destroying the studio and with it all human life.

I lied. I could only think of two ways it could have gone worse for Biden, and I’m honestly not sure the first one didn’t happen.

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I was anxious in the lead-up to the debate, but I assured myself that Biden had a lot of experience in the field, and that Donald Trump would self-destruct as he always does.

And then Biden emerged onto the stage. And in that moment, I knew this was going to be a really bad night. He seemed to have aged twenty years since 2020.

As usual, I’m seeing a lot of “working the refs” this morning, with Biden supporters (many of them now former Biden supporters) blaming CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash for…

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