President Joe Biden, speaks during a presidential debate hosted by CNN with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. “I know for some of the Obama inner circle, there will never be another love like that great and pure love of that magic moment in 2008. Everybody else will be like the fourth spouse,”, who was a top strategist for Mitt Romney in 2012. “But for Christ sake, show a little character and fight for your guy.
Stevens was responding to Ben Rhodes, who posted on X, “Telling people they didn’t see what they saw is not the way to respond to this.” I know for some of the Obama inner circle, there will never be another love like that great and pure love of that magic moment in 2008. Everybody else will be like the fourth spouse.
Biden’s uneven performance crystallized the concerns of many Americans that, at age 81, he is too old to serve as president. It sparked a fresh round of calls for the Democrat to step aside. Meanwhile, the 78-year-old Trump’s rhetoric offered Americans an unwelcome reminder of the bombast he launched daily during his tumultuous four years in office, as he struggles to win over skeptical voters. He declined to clearly state he would accept the results of the November election, four years after he promoted conspiracy theories about his loss that culminated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.