Democrats and left-wing journalists entered full-blown panic mode following the first presidential debate in the 2024 rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

The debate was defined by Biden delivering raspy, mumbling answers, while hurling personal insults and false claims at the former president.

Trump, who is known for usually being hyper and combative, appeared to benefit significantly from CNN’s debate format in which there was no audience for him to feed off of and microphones were turned off, which stopped him from interrupting Biden.

Biden was forced to stumble around his own mind in a quiet, empty room as he searched for answers. Trump largely was able to stand there and smile and Biden wilted numerous times under pressure.

Former Left-wing CNN blogger Chris Cillizza posted: “Look. This debate was a total and complete disaster for Biden. He looked old. His answers trailed off repeatedly. He was hard to understand. He would stop in mid sentence and move on to something else. I NEVER thought he would be this bad. Stunning. Truly.”

Maria Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family, posted on X: “I love Joe Biden. I know he’s a good man. I know his heart is good. I know he’s dedicated to our country and is surrounded by good people. Tonight was heartbreaking in many ways. This is a big political moment. There’s panic in the Democratic party. It’s going to be a long night.”

Journalist Yashar Ali posted on X: “I am in multiple large group texts with Democratic operatives, elected officials, staffers, and donors. Not one of them feels good about Biden’s performance tonight in terms of style, his voice etc. And these are people who aggressively defend him.”

Amy Walter, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Cook Political Report, posted: “Remember, the whole reason Biden wanted this debate was to show a contrast with Trump and to make this a referendum on Trump. Instead, only thing we’re talking about is Biden’s poor performance.”

CNN host Kasie Hunt highlighted Biden’s appearance: “The voice, open-mouthed look, and visual contrast between President Biden and former President Trump all have Democrats I’m talking to nearly beside themselves watching this debate.”

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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof posted: “I wish Biden would reflect on this debate performance and then announce his decision to withdraw from the race, throwing the choice of Democratic nominee to the convention. Someone like @gretchenwhitmer or @SherrodBrown or @SecRaimondo could still jump in and beat Trump.”

Journalist Ben Jacobs said that the most “sanguine” Democrat that he spoke to tonight said: “I understand much like Biden[,] there was no path to replace him with anyone not named Kamala and in this state he’s better than her.”

Former Democrat presidential and mayoral candidate Andrew Yang said that it was time to remove Biden from the ticket.

“Look I debated Joe 7 times in 2020. He’s a different guy in 2024,” he posted on X. “#swapJoeout”

President Joe Biden seethed with rage during Thursday night’s presidential debate against former President Donald Trump, bringing up a controversial story that has been widely disputed.

Biden mentioned a story from years ago, which many former Trump officials have said is not true, which accused Trump of calling U.S. soldiers “suckers and losers.”

Biden claimed that “veterans are a hell of a lot better off” under his presidency than Trump’s presidency.

“My son spent a year in Iraq, living next one of those burn pits, came back with stage four glioblastoma,” Biden falsely claimed. This lie has been repeatedly debunked by fact-checkers.

“I was recently in, in France for D-Day, and I spoke to all about those heroes that died,” Biden continued. “I went to the World War II cemetery, World War I cemetery he refused to go to, he was standing with his four star general. And he told him, I don’t want to go in there because they’re a bunch of losers and suckers.”

Biden then became visibly very agitated, saying: “My son was not a loser, he was not a sucker. You’re the sucker. You’re the loser.”

Trump fired back: “First of all, that was a made up, quote, ‘suckers and losers.’ They made it up. It was in a third rate magazine that’s failing, like many of these magazines. He made that up. He put it in commercials, we’ve notified him. We had 19 people that said, I didn’t say it.”

“There’s nobody that’s taken better care of our soldiers than I have,” Trump continued. “To think that I would, in front of generals and others, say ‘suckers and losers.’ We have 19 people that said, it was never said by me. It was made up by him. Just like Russia, Russia, Russia was made up, just like the 51 intelligence agents are made up. Just like the new thing with the 16 Economists are talking. It’s the same thing. 51 intelligence agents said that the laptop was Russia disinformation. It wasn’t. That came from his son Hunter. It wasn’t Russia disinformation. He made up the suckers and losers so he should apologize to be right now.”

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WATCH:

President Biden: “My son was not a loser, not a sucker. You’re the sucker. You’re the loser.

Former President Trump: “First of all, that was a made up quote…” pic.twitter.com/BBjTcrqBjR

— CSPAN (@cspan) June 28, 2024