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Transcripts For CNNW Debate 20240628

Theyre having conversations about the president S Performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket and theyre having conversations about what they should do about it. Some of those conversations include should we go to the white house and asked the president step aside . Others are other the conversations are about should prominent democrats go public with that call. But because they feel this debate was so terrible, they do say in moments in a debate later, the president got better and got his footing. But then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting. The contrast between the two candidates. Let me be clear. None of them and a lot of republicans dont think donald trump had a great night. Donald trump broke the fact check machine more than i can count tonight. That will be on the record as we go forward. He refused to answer some very specific and direct questions about his conduct, about january 6. And what all so that will be dealt with out there. And sometimes theres a parallel universe between the political elites and the American People. Be nice to see what the voters say. But i can tell you it started minutes in, it started with the first couple of answers and it has continued throughout the night for my oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Two, what do we do about this . And it involves very senior people in the Democratic Party, including elected officials saying we have a problem just to cosine what john is saying. I mean, the panic that i am hearing from democrats is not like anything that i have heard in this campaign so far. And a lot of it has to do with, first of all, there was a deep frustration about trumps lies. I mean, he lied a lot tonight, but the problem for biden was that trump was able to take some sometimes incredible falsehoods and turn them into some kind of argument. Whereas bidens answers were in a lot of cases, not coherent, deeply problematic that he was not able to take pretty straightforward answers and answer them to the american public. And then also at some points bringing things up that teed up trump attacks. So theres a real concern here garrett, tonight that theres been some real damage done that cannot be undone biden solidified. The perception among voters, but especially among his base. They were hoping that tonight would be a game changer. They are now seeing a president who was in the white house do they do not necessarily believe can do this for another four years . David axelrod look, i can argue with either of them about how a democrat leaders, Democratic Leaders are reacting to this poll. We said at the beginning that each person had a funnel mental goal and for biden met goal was to appear energetic, engaged, and look like someone who is capable of serving for another four years for president that was job number one. I actually think he scored a bunch of points. I think if you just judge this on sort of policy stuff he did score a bunch of points on issues like abortion, for example, on some of the economic issues. But there is a, there is a feeling. I think there was a sense of shock actually, uh, how he came out at the beginning of this debate how his voice sounded he seemed a little disoriented. He did get stronger as the debate. When im by, by that time, i think the panic had set in and i think youre going to hear discussions that i dont know will lead to anything, but you know, there is there going to be discussion but whether he should continue and i think part of it is donald trump did not meet his mission either. He read he could not resist the attention as the temptation to be nasty, to prepare a kaye about a whole bunch of things about his own record, about bidens record, and to seem petty and small at time. So what you saw was a candidate whos deeply vulnerable and a president who may not be able to take advantage of it i love if anybody in america thinks that was even close to being an okay debate by joe biden im living in a parallel universe that was an unmitigated disaster for President Biden from the second he walked out to the closing statement, Biggest Issue for democrats is abortion. And he couldnt give an answer. He gave an answer. Three, he couldnt even give a coherent answer on the Biggest Issue for democrats tonight ive heard from leading democrats across the United States, elected governors, congressmen, horse texting me and say, im worried, im gonna lose if joe biden at the top of the ticket bob casey, i promise you tonight in the state of pennsylvania is thrown up in his mouth because he knows that hes got to stand next to joe biden. Hes going down in pennsylvania if hes on the ticket, i dont know how its going to work yeah. Look, i wasnt really disappointing debate performance from joe biden. I dont think theres any way any other way to slice it. His Biggest Issue that he had to prove the American People was he had the energy or the stamina, and he didnt do that. And so i think that is of concern and i think for a lot of democrats its very, very disappointing. I will say donald trump also had some really rough moments in this debate and youre talking to the Biden Campaign. They say theyre dials, start really moving away from trump as he was increasing as personal attacks on biden. So i think there was a lot about his character and the kind of personal nastiness that he was putting on display doesnt help, him with this swing voters that he needs. You know, and i also think you saw him continue to get more and more animated across the course of the debate and give some really problematic answers about january 6, some really probably problematic answers about putin. So donald trump did not get off scotfree tonight by any stretch. But look there is no two ways about it that was not a good debate for joe biden yeah. That was painful. I love joe biden. I worked for joe biden he didnt do well at all you did not do well at all and he looked yeah. Ill give you the analysis. You kind of have the old man versus the kann man i can walk you through how its supposed to see it and say it, but i just want to speak for my heart i love that guy. As a good man he loves his country. Hes doing the best that he can. But he had a test to meet tonight to restore confidence of the country and of the base. And he failed to do that and i think theres a lot of people who are going to want to see him consider taking a different course now, were still far from our convention. And there is time for this party to figure out a different way forward, if he will allow us to do that but that was not what we needed from joe biden and his personally painful for a lot of people. Its not just panic, its pain of what we saw night and if i may just add to that, i think joe biden lost in the first three minutes. I think a lot of voters probably tuned out and millions of people are having conversations with their families, with their friends of if the president is up to the task and if you should step aside. And im someone who believes the former president as a threat to democracy. I think he is a threat to the america as we know it. He wants to fundamentally change our institutions. He has laid out what his plan is. I am not confident that that is the man to take him on. You cannot tell me democracy is on the line and then give that performance tonight. If based on that, in 18 weeks, donald trump will be the president elect the people during focus groups tonight and well see if our dial group with laura coates confirms this. Then if biden actually scores pretty well on the issues when hes talking about the substance and trumps numbers went down, both because he was ducking questions. He was lying about some things and he was refusing to answer and some of the time it was the tone they dont like. And so when you see that, when you see this statistics, youre going to look at like, oh, thats a mixed bag, but to vance point about the president S Performance, thats what caused the panic. So the question is, and my question actually is, what happens because to his its a great political strength of joe biden is his resilience and his stubbornness. Its also sometimes a blind spot because he is so stemming its gonna be very hard to someone and i dont know who it is, who could go to joe biden who say, you need to do this. Number one, the question is again, like im just telling you, its abbys point. Ive been doing this for 30 something years going on 40 years, and i have never, ever had what happened on this thing tonight happen in the middle of the debate, it started literally and it continued to advance point. They made a very important point these are people who love joe biden, who credit joe biden for kicking donald trump out of the way thats their democrats, the Democratic Party is a very diverse party. It fights about a lot of things. It has generational issues, has had regionalisms and everything else. The thing that unites the Democratic Party is trying to keep donald trump from getting back into the white house. They love joe biden for kicking them out. They dont want him back. They came into this debate, nervous. That biden was in a weak position. They leave this debate panicked john, if you love the guy, how could you put them out there . If you love them, if you love joe biden, if that was my father, you dont put a guy and thats a great point. These guys, these guys know this better. These guys noticed that is because they talked to them. Theres this legacy and the Democratic Party, do you dont challenge the incumbent because when its happened in the past they havent been the incumbent and then the comment is actually donald trump that helped make joe biden the nominee because there was a feeling that if there were a primary, that that would weaken that biden would probably to win, but it would weaken him in a general election. And so there are people who could have run and didnt run because the history of that is bad. The point is now he is the nominee of the Democratic Party. This isnt the 60s, okay. Voters choose the nominee. He is the nominee only he can decide whether hes going to continue. And as you pointed out, and as kate knows very well, this is a guy with a lot of pride and who believes in himself and the idea that hes can say, you know what, i had a bad debate. I think im going to walk away from this. I find that hard to believe also, and i know sky sky was also it was an atypically bad performance. Okay. And it was also one night, so yes. Was it important . Yes. But it was one night in the course of a campaign. So i think lets go with a one night, the problem with a one night is that everybody was watching wanting not on the substance. I think he actually won on those substance. I dont think trump did. Well, i think what it says to a lot of people, a lot of active democrats is, man, we can beat this guy, but i dont know if we can beat him with the preska as got when we came on before this debate, i said, i thought this candidacy was teetering. And everybody jumped on me definitely Single Person out here and i just i just the candidacy has fallen okay . Man, i know youre speaking from your heart im worried about the president we should pray for the president. I think his advisers i think the white house. And i think his family have a lot of explaining to do to their party and to the American People this night, one night was caused by an asked for by the biden team. They wanted this night and this is what we got. Weve been told for weeks, weeks by democrats who say, oh, in private meetings, ive seen joe biden. Do cartwheels enhance stands while doing trigonometry, while solving all the nations problems we now know that every Single Person who said that has been lying to the American People, including kevin mccarthy. Weve been told kate, i mean, just saying everything weve been told about his mental acuity by these democrats has been ally and everything we think we knew has been confirmed. I got a text from a friend. Shes not terribly political shed maxed out to biden in the last election because she hates donald trump she said to me, i will never forgive the Democratic Party for this election if the democrats truly believed that he is an exit threat to democracy and thats not just some talking point. They will wake up in the morning and they will do Something Else because this is not sustainable. Thats another point about their democrats who are panicking. And then there are a lot of republicans who did not want to vote for donald trump, who do not want to vote for donald trump, who were also panicking tonight. I heard from one who said, this is scary thats how it was described to me. And id second that there were there was a lot there were a lot of those feelings, not just from the base of the party, but other people who really think that there should be an alternative to trump who they think is dangerous . And thats the other part of what is unfolding tonight in terms of the panic that is out there i already have coming into this debate support for thirdparty candidates, robert f. Kennedy jr. Highest and then jill stein at cornell west, nowhere near as close. But if you add it all up, you get into the teens in most states when you do that, i think one byproduct out of this is to watch and see if those numbers go up a little bit. Im not saying theyre going to go anywhere like a parole standard, but you get to you get to thirdparty candidates getting into double digits then thats really starts to twist your electoral math state depending on who theyre drawing from statebystate because this was already a very complicated race. This is what number one, the biggest complication right now is conversation when the Democratic Party, but the other complication is going to be if joe biden stays put and kates right, maybe itll be another debate. Im not sure donald trump is going to agree to a second debate. Biden is going to need it now, im not sure trumps going to agree to it if the if the dynamics of the race change bill name, i would also watch the third party i ever met. I just want to say one thing especially the youtube guys if for whatever reason theres a change at the top of the ticket you guys are in trouble with donald trump because the guy whos up there tonight is not a guy whos going to inspire people, is he did not show in any way that he has changed from the guy who people who have a very positive opinion for a lot of good reason. I think donald trump won several policy exchanges tonight. I think he did well on immigration. I think he did well on the economy. I think he did well on inflation. I think he went back to afghanistan asieh should have the thing he did not do was after sure, he realized that he had biden beaten on policy and on image he should have turned the page and sounded an optimistic note about what we can become as a people and as a country he did not do that. He continued to pummel joe biden on i understand what youre saying. But at the end of the night, very few things about the policy exchanges is going to be remembered people are going to remember joe biden theyre going to remember him shuffling out theyre going to remember him staring blankly into the camera. Theyre going to remember him looking down, losing his train of thought, and theyre going to remember that everything i thought i knew, but the whitehouse told me dont believe my own eyes is actually true. If thats what i what i said, scott was if joe biden were not the candidate, if there was another candidate, i think donald trump would be in deep yeah, but if i made that that is such a sad state of affairs, something i was consistently hearing is what a bad debate in the sense that donald trump lied throughout. He misrepresented, he tried to turn away from key points that you should lets give an answers on, kept and kept deflecting with any normal generic democrat next to him. I dont think he wouldve won the night, but you put somebody who was suffering from the moment that they got out, it was hard to watch. I had to occasionally look away because it was so uncomfortable. I think america deserves better than the options that are in front of them. Its really devastating. And by the way, our allies these are watching. Yeah, look, i mean, the way that i would try to phrase it if i were less Emotional Biden stuttered. But he told the truth you look terrible. Those policies were good. Trump spoke plainly line the whole time. And he looked good. But as policies were terrible, i mean, hes hes gonna do nothing on Climate Change. He was hugging the cactus on abortion i mean, his policies are terrible. So you have somebody who probably shouldnt be president and you have somebody who can not be president in terms of what donald trump represents. So we have a problem. Its a country now, and this might be an opportunity for people to come together and figure this out, because neither one of those people right now are inspiring the confidence that they should inspire, that they can do the job in a way that we would get for the country. But young voters are up for grabs in this election. I dont know a voter under 30 who would have watched tonight and could say, i have confidence in joe biden and casting my vote for four more years of biden this opens the door by the way for the conversation about if joe biden remains the candidate, youre not voting for joe biden. You are voting for president Kamala Harris. Lets be honest. That is where the Trump Campaign is gonna go with this. They started down this road with a ad they released today but this conversation about who youre actually casting your vote for the volume is going to ratchet up and i got news for you. Shes less popular than he is that is going to be a big problem for the democrats if this ticket stays the way it is, yeah, the scots democratic friend who, who, who maxed out, right . Thats the, thats the sentiment youre gonna here. I think from my democratic friends for texting me saying i cant believe this is where we are. Right . Yeah. I i dont forget. I cant im not gonna be able to forgive the party for pointing this in this position i think about Donald Trumps lies. I mean, i spent a lot of time thinking about this throughout the debate because we the media, i

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