Zeteo editor-in-chief and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan called on President Joe Biden to “step aside” following his “car crash” performance against former President Donald Trump in CNN’s first presidential debate on Thursday.
“Joe Biden’s gotta go,” said Hasan, mirroring the concerns of many Democrats and even members of Biden’s inner circle following Thursday’s debate:
The Democrats need a new presidential candidate, and I say that as someone who has never said this before. I say that as someone who hasn’t spent the past few months obsessing over Joe Biden’s age or that he’s too senile. In fact, I’m someone who said Donald Trump is way more incoherent, way more demented than Joe Biden is. But not tonight.
Tonight was a car crash for the Biden presidency, for the Biden campaign. It was painful to watch. At times, I’m sorry, it felt like elder abuse. You had the 81-year-old president of the United States unable to finish his whispered sentences, looking like a deer in the headlights, unable to hit back against the convicted felon standing just a few feet away. This was the moment that I knew Joe Biden has to go.
