Ninety minutes is a long guard in politics; ask a democrat, any democrat.
As fog hung over Atlanta the morning after the presidential debate, for them the metaphors wrote themselves.
The previous night’s hot takes gave way to cold, lucid assessments that paralyzed the Democratic Party.
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The briefest glance at the American media reflected their concern about how bad it had been and how much worse it could get.
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An unbearable television performance It had been designed to show strength and offer reassurance around its leader and president. Rather, it imbued a sense of crisis that crystallized overnight.
Party acolytes and opinion makers who did not listen to the concerns of those at the top are now crying out for change.
And yet it was the team Biden who sparked the television debate. The plan had been to capture the attention of a disengaged American public and change opinion polls that had shown donald trump In front.
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Quick polls after the debate told them what they would have seen for themselves: a split-screen contrast that presented Trump as the “winner.” There may have only been three years between them, but each of them seemed to come across as a stiff and sometimes incoherent Joe Biden.
The Biden who presented himself as the candidate to defeat Donald Trump presented himself on stage as the only candidate who could not.
Worry among Democrats is compounded by anger that stubbornness and ego will deprive them at the polls and hand Trump a victory.
It would be quite a legacy for a president who defines the November elections as a defense of democracy and himself as its defender-in-chief.
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