Biden’s Performance at First Debate Reignites Calls for Him to Step Aside
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President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance Thursday evening against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — an unhinged, would-be authoritarian whose lies were glaring and constant — sent much of the Democratic Party establishment into a spiral of panic and ignited calls for the incumbent to step aside to allow another Democratic candidate to take on the former president in November.