It seems as though not everyone thinks President Joe Biden was the only person on the debate stage with a bad performance Thursday.
According to The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board, former President Trump needs to abandon his dreams of returning to the White House because of his “bombastic litany of lies,” Foxes News reported.
“The debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump,” the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote in a piece published Saturday.
The focus of the debate has been on Biden’s poor performance with many Democrats and media outlets suggesting he step down from the race, Fox News reported.
The Inquirer, while acknowledging Biden’s debate was a “disaster,” claimed Trump is the candidate who should step down.
“The debate served as a reminder of what another four years of Trump would look like. More lies, grievance, narcissism, and hate,” the Inquirer wrote. “Supporters say they like Trump because he says whatever he thinks. But he mainly spews raw sewage.”
The editorial board wrote Trump shouldn’t be on a debate stage, adding “why even give him a platform?”
The board said Biden on a bad day is still better than Trump.
“Yes, Biden had a horrible night. He’s 81 and not as sharp as he used to be. But Biden on his worst day remains lightyears better than Trump on his best,” the board wrote.
The board wrote that Biden “believes in the best of America.”
The same, the board wrote, can’t be said of Trump.
“Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?” the board wrote.
That was not exactly how Trump’s campaign — and other media giants — saw it.
“The Democrat machine is in full freak-out mode because President Trump delivered the greatest debate performance in history while Joe Biden completely embarrassed himself in from of the country and the rest of the world,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said to Fox News Digital.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the New York Times have said Biden should be the one to drop out.
“He failed to outline the most fundamental aspects of his platform,” the AJC editorial board wrote. “He failed to take credit for the significant accomplishments of his 3 and a half years in office. And he failed to counter the prevarications of an opponent, who, according to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale, lied 30 times during the course of the debate, approximately once every 90 seconds of his allotted time.”
The New York Times said Biden’s candidacy was a “reckless gamble.”
“The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant. He struggled to explain what he would accomplish in a second term. He struggled to respond to Mr. Trump’s provocations. He struggled to hold Mr. Trump accountable for his lies, his failures and his chilling plans. More than once, he struggled to make it to the end of a sentence,” per the editorial board.
The NYT board said Biden had been an respectable president but added the “greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election.”
