The Democratic Party line on President Biden was that he had turned in an exceptionally effective State of the Union address. He might mess up a name here or there, but he had gotten better with age.
Everything we saw with our own eyes was misleading. No, he hadn't wandered off at the G-7 summit. No, he hadn't frozen up at his Hollywood fundraiser. No, everything was fine.
Then, the debate happened, and before it had ended, the party line was inoperative. There were attempts to revive it, but it was a little like being a Communist in the 1930s when Stalin wrenched the party into a totally new position.
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC...suddenly thought he might have to step aside. George Clooney...wrote in The New York Times that Biden at that event was a shadow of his self, and suddenly former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau could say that everyone he talked to at the event was appalled by Biden's state.
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