All this talk about #Biden being too old isn't right to me. FYI #Malaysia had a 95 yo PM. It's not age. It's cognitive clarity. The problem is this is the seat that will affect the rest of the world. I can tell you the world is watching the debate and thinking, dear gawd we have to put up with one of them for the next four years??
Good news: Allan Lictman, who has successfully predicted every Presidential election for over 30 years with one exception (Bush vs Gore) says debates historically have zero impact on the election.
#AllanLictman has yet to make an official prediction (that will be in August), but he is still leaning towards #JoeBiden defeating #DonaldTrump in November.
“I know I’m not a young man, to the state the obvious. Well, I know I don’t walk as easy as I used to, I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to, I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth..
I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done. I know, like millions of Americans, I know, when you get knocked down, you get back up.
Ronald Reagan won the 1980 debate by repeating FOUR words every time his opponent lied on stage and it STUCK in the minds of the American come time to cast their votes. #Biden was not prepared properly for this debate and the Dems only have themselves to blame if he loses.
I agree, CNN Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, your performance was atrocious, perhaps the worst of all three. Trump was being Trump and Biden was being Biden ... but you were not being journalists ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro: "Look, I think Joe #Biden had a bad debate night, but it doesn't change the fact that Donald #Trump was a bad president, a bad president who ripped away our freedoms, a bad president who drove our economy into the ditch, a bad president who exacerbated the problems of climate change, and a guy who stood on the stage last night and not only lied about his past, but lied about the kinds of things he's proposing for the future." —MSNBC
I would rather have Joe Biden drooling on the Resolute Desk while the intelligent and eminently competent team he has assembled runs the country than have Trump smearing catsup on the Oval Office walls while the team of actual Nazis and sycophantic idiots he has assembled dismantles our democracy and civil rights.
And yes, I do think #Biden sounds tired. He’s stuttering and stammering. He’s forgetting and mixing up some facts and figures. He’s old.
But let me be clear: even if his team needed to prop him up like a WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S situation, I’m still voting for him. Because I’m not choosing who gets to take me to the prom, choosing my soul mate or marriage partner, or on a quest for a perfect candidate who represents my inner child. This #election is literally about saving America. OMG people.
We can not rely upon #Biden to rally the masses against those threatening the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 from within. We can not rely upon the #Democrats to protect us from reactionary #Republicans.
We will have to stop #Trump & the #GOP ourselves at the ballot box on November 5th.
Based on optics alone (emotion, appearance, clarity, humor), #DonaldTrump won this debate. Yes, #Trump spewed mostly lies, but most voters in #America 🇺🇸 do not actively fact check their politicians.
But based on substance & fact, #JoeBiden won the debate. #Biden however mumbled & stumbled many of his statements & appeared weak.
I can only hope that citizens of the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 will vote based on truth instead of emotion.
Now I understand why having the debates early and not following the presidential debate commission rules was a good strategic move for #Biden: he needs to get the debates out of the way early so people can forget about them before the election. Yikes. #PresidentialDebate#politics#USPol
Here's my closing statement: I was so sure #Biden would have an arsenal of zingers ready to go and fire them mercilessly at #Trump the whole time. Biden is GOOD at zingers. Instead, #Trump got in more zingers, Biden made mistakes throughout (including during his REHEARSED CLOSING STATEMENT), and on top of everything else Biden sounds sick. So many strategic blunders. The only thing Biden did right is have the debate in June so people have time to forget it. #PresidentialDebate#politics#USPol
#Biden to #Trump: You’re a whiner. Not one single court agreed with you that there was election fraud. “Something snapped in you when you lost the last time.”