Pod Save America Hosts Sound Alarm on ‘F**king Disaster’ For Biden: ‘Maybe the Worst Debate I’ve Ever Seen In My Entire Life’
The hosts of Pod Save America hosts had very few positives to take away from CNN’s Thursday debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, with all of them suggesting it’s time Democrats have a conversation about potentially replacing Biden.
Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, Jon Lovett, and Dan Pfeiffer — all former Barack Obama aides — broke down the debate shortly after it’s airing. Favreau declared it was “maybe the worst” debate he’d ever witnessed.
“I think it was a fucking disaster. I think it was maybe the worst debate I’ve ever seen in my entire life,” he said. “Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, Donald Trump is just a despicable human being, he should not be president, we have to do literally everything we possibly can to make sure that he is not president again, and that is why it was so fucking awful because Joe Biden in every single way failed at that debate.”
All of the hosts made sure to praise Biden’s presidency, but argued he may not be the best candidate.
Vietor said the president “looked confused” and argued he “exacerbated” concerns about his age.
“Debates are a performance and what you say and how you say it both matter and so the optics to start there were very bad tonight. He had to answer concerns about his age, I think he exacerbated them. His voice sounded frail. There was an answer where he kind of stalled out halfway through,” he said.
Vietor also argued there should be concern that a second debate scheduled for the fall will be canceled.
“I’m also worried that there might not be another debate because if you’re Trump, you might be thinking, why not just leave it at that?” he said.
Pfeiffer added that Biden had a low expectation bar going into the debate.
“If Joe Biden had given a b-minus performance last night, we would be talking about Donald Trump. He lied, he made very little sense, he didn’t answer any questions,” he said.
Lovett described feeling everything from scared to sad while watching and declared there needs to be a “big open question” about whether the best way to beat Trump is with Biden or someone else.
“It would be silly not to have this conversation,” Favreau said.
He later added that Biden did his party a favor by proposing this first debate so early.
“The best thing Joe Biden did is to propose this debate before the convention and give us a chance now to rethink this,” he said.
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