Former President Donald Trump predicted on Friday that President Joe Biden would remain the Democratic nominee for president after Biden was widely criticized for his shaky debate performance Thursday night.

Trump told Fox News he believed Biden would not be replaced after some Democratic commentators suggested that Biden should step down and allow someone to take his place following his poor performance at the CNN presidential debate. During the debate, Biden repeatedly mumbled and made other verbal missteps, causing panic among Democrats.

“Yes, I think he will be the nominee,” Trump said when asked by Fox on Biden’s future as the nominee. Trump added that he didn’t think any other Democratic candidate would have performed better against him.

“It was a great honor to be on stage representing the people of our country,” Trump said.

Throughout the debate, Trump repeatedly attacked Biden over the record number of illegal immigrants who have entered the country under his watch while Biden criticized Trump for his handling of the economy and ongoing legal problems.

Much of the post debate commentary focused on Biden’s mental and physical health.

“He seemed a little disoriented,” former Obama adviser David Axelrod said of Biden after the debate. “But by that time, I think the panic had set in. And I think you’re going to hear discussions that − I don’t know will lead to anything − but there is going to be discussions about whether he should continue.”

The Trump campaign quickly declared victory after the debate concluded.

“Despite taking a week-long vacation at Camp David to prepare for the debate, Biden was unable to defend his disastrous record on the economy and the border,” Trump campaign co-chairs Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said on Thursday. “President Trump is spot-on when he says that if Joe Biden is too incompetent to stand trial, then Biden is too incompetent to be President.”

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The Biden campaign has already pushed back on claims that he should step away from his presidential campaign, saying he will remain in the race.

“I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to,” Biden said at a rally in North Carolina on Friday. “But I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job.”

Trump will also be holding a campaign event on Friday in Chesapeake, Virginia.

The liberal hosts of ABC’s “The View” found themselves “in mourning” and going through the various stages of grief during Friday’s broadcast as they recapped the disastrous debate between former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden.

The debate, which has reportedly caused panic within the Democratic Party, showcased all of the frailty and confusion that conservative outlets have been pointing out in Biden — and put it on display in a way that very few have even attempted to excuse or explain away.

“The View” co-host Joy Behar was one of the few, advising her co-hosts not to “get too depressed yet” — while Sunny Hostin said that she was “mourning” — and suggesting that his lackluster performance was just due to a cold giving him a hoarse voice.

“Let’s not get too depressed yet,” Joy Behar tells the panel.
Sunny Hostin says she’s “in mourning” after Biden’s disastrous debate performance.
Behar suggests Biden was just horse. pic.twitter.com/fpSP9QKwfK

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 28, 2024

Co-host Sara Haines was among those who saw the debate and said that it was time for Biden to step aside, preferably soon, in the hopes that the Democratic Party could replace him in time to have a shot at winning the presidential election in November.

“President Biden needs to step down and be replaced,” Haines said – and she suggested that perhaps his team knew that and had intentionally scheduled the debate early enough to replace him.

Saying that the debate had been “really hard to watch,” Haines went on to admit that Democrats had been working overtime to spin Biden’s age and cognitive abilities as less concerning than they really were.

“Democrats need to stop spinning the age problem. Over and over Democrats have twisted themselves into a pretzel to say, ‘Don’t believe your lying eyes,'” Haines added, admitting that she and her co-hosts had done the same.

Haines says “Democrats need to stop spinning the age problem.”
“Over and over Democrats have twisted themselves into a pretzel to say, ‘don’t believe your lying eyes'” about Biden’s age problem.
She admits The View is guilty of it too, noting they use Behar’s age as a defense. pic.twitter.com/uin8Xf1nYy

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 28, 2024

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who worked in the Trump White House and now calls the former president a “threat to democracy,” said she was surprised by how badly the debate went for Biden.

“It was stunningly worse than I expected, the performance,” she said. “Biden’s performance was so bad it eclipsed everything Donald Trump said.”

She went on to claim that “Trump world” was afraid of anyone the Democrats could replace Biden with, and said that Biden “needs to put country before his own ambition and he needs to step aside and pass the baton.”

Farah Griffin declares “Trump is a threat to American democracy,” thus Biden “needs to put country before his own ambition and he needs to step aside and pass the baton.”
She claims “Trump world is scared” of going up against another candidate. “They will wipe the floor…” pic.twitter.com/uVEHexYqKb

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 28, 2024

When it was Hostin’s turn to weigh in, she conceded that Biden had lost the debate. She then immediately pivoted to attack Trump, saying that Republicans should be the ones who had to get a new nominee.

Ana Navarro defended Biden, saying she was not ready to throw in the towel “until Joe Biden tells me he’s giving up.”

Fake conservative Ana Navarro asserts that Democrats are better humans than Republicans: “Democrats are exquisite. They’re precious. They’re idealists.”
“Until Joe Biden tells me he’s giving up, I’m not giving up on Joe Biden,” she declares. pic.twitter.com/bzWsD7UiM7

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 28, 2024

Behar jumped in to defend Biden again, suggesting that the president was actually fine and that something about the debate had thrown him off.

“This is really unbelievable,” she said, showing a clip of him speaking at a debate watch party after it was all over and saying that he hardly resembled the man who had debated Trump.

Navarro suggests Biden could still pull off a win like Bush and Obama did after poor debate performances.
Farah Griffin admits that she was so distraught after Biden lost the #CNNdebate, that she went and rewatched Reagan vs. Mondale just to see a Republican lose. pic.twitter.com/10FAYNQYt3

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 28, 2024