It was a rough night for the post-debate panel over at MSNBC — particularly for host Joy Reid, who couldn’t deny the reality of President Biden’s poor performance.
“Obviously, Joe Biden comes in with certain deficits. He has a stutter. It is more difficult for him to communicate for that reason. So there is a lot to mitigate the way that he speaks, and you can understand it. We have observed for a long time.
“That said, I, too, was on the phone throughout much of the debate with Obama world people, with Democrats, with people who are political operatives, with campaign operatives. My phone really never stopped buzzing throughout. And the universal reaction was somewhere approaching panic,” Reid said.
“The people who were texting with me were very concerned about President Biden seeming extremely feeble, seeming extremely weak,” she continued.
“He needed to settle Democrats…Democrats always talk about Democrats are bed wetters, Democrats [are] always panicking … they are neurotic. But Joe Biden’s job was to reassure them tonight. His job was to calm his party, to make them feel that, ‘Yes, I can do this. I have four more years in me. I have the ability and the stamina and the strength to do four more,’” she said.
“He did not do that. He did the opposite of that,” she said. “He made them more panicked. The people who were texting me were even more panicked. They actually expected it to be better than it was, and now they are in, I won’t say a full-fledged panic, but it is getting there.”
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How bad is it for Joe Biden? Joy Reid said there’s a panic and his performance was a disaster. Joy Reid! pic.twitter.com/f3epTg4rET
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 28, 2024
