President Biden's team is in crisis/spin mode, scrambling to keep Biden's campaign alive as his poll numbers drop.
And it's not going well.
As you may have seen (or certainly heard about), Biden's debate--arguably the biggest night of his life-- was a disaster. He was wide-eyed, slack-jawed, and couldn't regularly respond to Donald Trump or the moderators with coherent, salient arguments (I wrote about it here).
"Oh, he had a cold," said the Biden campaign.
And then more excuses.
Biden attributed his horrible performance to jet lag from his G7 European trip--from which he had returned TWELVE days prior and then spent almost a week at Camp David.
His White House staff said Biden had just prepped too much.
His wife, Jill, offered that her husband "didn't feel great" for the debate.
And none of it explains anything, really.
Biden's debate performance was pitiable, to be honest--with the US President appearing as a dazed and confused elderly man. It was sad to watch (and scary, too, if one stops to consider that this man is responsible for things like the nuclear codes).
Amazingly, however, he followed his feeble debate performance the next day with a cogent and rousing speech in North Carolina.
So, what gives?
As former House Speaker (and staunch Biden supporter) Nancy Pelosi wondered regarding Biden's tremendous debate stumble, "I think it's a legitimate question...is it an episode or is this a condition?"
Of course, the White House isn't offering any clarity on that question.
Just yesterday, the White House Press Secretary said Biden hadn't had any medical exams since his last one in February.
Now, word comes out that Biden actually did see a doctor after the debate.
The White House explained it away by saying it was only a "brief check," not a physical.
But this lack of transparency and the ever-evolving stories coming out point to one thing as Biden's team is in crisis mode: this IS a crisis.
And should it ever come to a split-second decision--maybe regarding a nuclear launch or an insidious cyber-attack on our infrastructure or thwarting an attempted coup--who is making that decision to protect our country, a clear-headed President or the elderly man at the debate who froze like a deer in the headlights?
And if you have to even ask that question, it's clear.
Joe Biden has to step aside.
And no spin can disguise that.
