Michael Tae Sweeney: Extremely good for Biden if the debate is generating mainstream headlines like this, relative to what I'd have expected the coverage to be like!

Extremely good for Biden if the debate is generating mainstream headlines like this, relative to what I'd have expected the coverage to be like!

President Biden and former president Donald Trump traded barbs over Trump’s felony conviction in his New York hush money trial during Thursday's debate. Biden addressed Trump’s case directly by saying Trump had sex with a porn star while his wife was pregnant. wapo.st/4eICoud

Maybe the one time in my life where the media's slavish devotion to finding false balance had advantaged Dems? bsky.app/profile/rhet...

local news here actually had a pretty pro-Biden bent too

gotta admit I did a double-take on WaPo

I genuinely think Biden’s was a B- performance after the first 20 minutes, and Trump came off like and angry, vindictive lunatic after the first 20. People noticed.

local news here actually had a pretty pro-Biden bent too

At least Sinclair didn't get to them..

"You have the morals of an alley cat" is admittedly a very funny, very Biden line

It's up there with "you have all the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair" (John Mulaney quoting his father)

Heathcliff is offended

One of my copes for this debate is how in the first British election debate this year, the pundit class on the night decided that Sunak won decisively and then it became clear over the next few days that he… hadn’t

I thought he won the debate and I think even the Labour team semi-privately admitted Starmer didn't do as well as they'd have liked. Maybe it's just me.

NYT home page right now has Biden struggles as Trump blusters. It isn't great for Biden, but meander, fumbling at the end of sentences vs wild assertions and false statements isn't great for Trump either.

Honestly, if they could just threaten to kill the D consultant class whole sale and get them talking about what Trump said instead...

"Alley cat". My grandfather (who'd be 99 if he were still alive) used to call immoral people this. Other times, he'd use it as a joking insult.

Bold of Biden to throw away the cat lovers vote.

Cat lovers know their cats are little villains, alley cats more so

This puts Trump in a bind because the standard ploy is to do the how dare you bring my family into this thing, but that will Streisand the fact that he really was fucking a porn star when his wife was pregnant.

god bless swing voters for not watching this shit

I didn't watch but I gather Biden took a few funny shots at him and that's probably all our foolish public will care about

You mean something more like this?

Doesn't matter! No normies read politico!

to be fair, that debate was so horrible that they're probably trying to have a positive spin on it still, a win's a win

I wish Biden would stop attacking the morals of alley cats.

There’s another one about how bad the mods were!

Biden must have scheduled an interview.

Objectively a very funny headline!!

I joined the debate after 30 minutes and my impression was also Biden slamming Trump over and over. Feels like a lot of people only watched the first 30 minutes before he got going and then went off to write articles

#BidenHarris2024

Cable news will be different fo sho

They're talking about removing Biden as a candidate and full panic mode

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