One Year Later: How Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance forced his media allies to turn on him
The legacy media largely shielded Joe Biden from negative coverage of his health, age and cognitive decline during his presidency, but that all changed on June 27, 2024, when his disastrous debate performance changed the course of history.
Biden appeared frail and struggled with a weak voice, delivering rambling answers while frequently appearing to lose his train of thought during the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign against President Donald Trump in Atlanta. Biden fumbled key answers and famously declared, “We finally beat Medicare,” when he apparently meant to say that he beat big pharma.
At one point, as the two candidates traded fire over the issue of immigration, Trump pounced after another rambling answer from Biden…