Democrats publicly said that Trump was goaded into the June debate. Biden issued an “anytime, anywhere” challenge to Trump, and did so while Trump was on trial in New York. Joe said, “I understand you’re free on Wednesday,” which was an insult line written for him. Trump’s trial had an off day on Wednesday. The challenge was best remembered for multiple cuts. Apparently, it took Biden five takes (edits) to get a 14-second challenge. But he got it right. Sort of.
Trump accepted. The stage was set and the rules agreed to. What we got was Biden turning into the old man who fell asleep at the bingo game. Everyone saw it happen.
A Democrat media hack named Jonathan Alter saw it too. He wrote about it in Vanity Fair, and in a coming book. Most of his family couldn’t bear to watch as the Biden train went off the tracks and went careening over the cliff.
My family couldn’t bear to watch the debate to the end. I did, and I stayed up until 2 am writing the first of three New York Times Opinion pieces advocating an open audition process for a new nominee.
Alter was told 11 days before the debate that if Biden performed badly, the Democrat machine would move to replace him.
Biden tried to rehab with willing and sycophantic pseudo-journalists, but the fix was in. Biden had a rally with the puppet-master Barack Obama, and Biden froze like the retirement home resident who forgot where his room was. Biden was led off stage. The fix was definitely in. But Biden is the president, and he had all the delegates. And, he had a wife who desperately wanted to stay in the White House. How do you get rid of a sitting president who doesn’t want to leave?