Democrats panicked at Biden's debate debacle - and aren't fooling anyone as they now pretend everything's fine

"Right now, as we speak, there is a deep, wide and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party," reported CNN's John King moments after the faceoff ended.

Under the headline "A Fumbling Performance, and a Panicking Party," The New York Times' Peter Baker wrote, "Democrats who have defended the president for months" spent Thursday night trading "frenzied phone calls and text messages within minutes of the start of the debate."

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