Biden finally overshadowed Trump, in all the wrong ways
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President Biden’s debate performance has Democrats in a panic and Donald Trump supporters gleeful. Columnists Karen Tumulty, Dana Milbank and Jim Geraghty process how things feel the morning after, whether the president should step aside and how the truth was the night’s biggest loser.
Read more from our columnists about the debate:
Karen Tumulty: “The Great Democratic Freakout is upon us”
Dana Milbank: “If America is failing, that debate showed why”
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