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Crossing swords live again for the first time in four years, the current and former president offered the painful spectacle of a Democratic incumbent very diminished in the face of the lies spouted on the channel by his Republican rival.
It was not an evening to have a cold. At almost 82 years old, including more than half a century in politics, Joe Biden has his good days and his bad days, and his team did not even wait for the end of the first debate between him and Donald Trump since 2020 to communicate from behind the scenes what was supposed to explain – by an unfortunate cold snap, therefore – that this outing on Thursday, June 27 seems like a very, very bad evening for the current president, campaigning for his re-election.
As soon as the hour and a half of confrontation was over, commentators from all sides on American television, returning to the air with defeated faces, echoed in chorus the panicked reaction sweeping through the Democratic building, from base to base. top-ranking elected officials, questioning the feasibility of a last-minute replacement of their champion, perhaps thanks to the party convention, scheduled for mid-August in Chicago.
The inaudible background in a disastrous form
Opposite, his Republican predecessor did not deviate from his inveterate and boastful charlatans, his superlative taste for insults and mean excess. Freed from any live fact-checking by the moderators and rather sparing on his most threatening campaign promises, Trump easily dodged the questions at stake to hammer home at every turn his obsession with an America that, since his departure from the White House, would be in disarray on all fronts, and prey to an unbridled migratory invasion, directly poured, never ceasing
