‘Deep, Wide, and a Very Aggressive Panic’: CNN’s John King Reports Dems May Ask Biden To Step Aside

CNN’s John King reported that a “deep, wide, and a very aggressive panic” took hold within the Democratic Party during President Joe Biden’s debate with Donald Trump on a postgame show Thursday night.

“Right now, as we speak, there is a deep, wide and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party,” declared King just moments after the debate ended. “It started minutes into the debate, and it continues right now. It involves party strategists, It involves elected officials, it involves fundraisers, and they are having conversations about the president’s performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket. And they’re having conversations about what they should do about it.”

He continued:

Some of those conversations include: “Should we go to the White House and ask the president to step aside?” Others of the conversations are about “Should prominent Democrats go public with that call?” because they feel this debate was so terrible. They do say, in moments in the debate later, the president got better and got his footing. But then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting. The contrast between the two candidates. Let me be clear: None of them, and a lot of Republicans don’t think Donald Trump had a great night. Donald Trump broke the fact check machine more than I can count tonight. That will be on the record as we go forward. He refused to answer some very specific and direct questions about his conduct, about January 6th and what all. So that will be dealt with out there. And sometimes there’s a parallel universe between the political elites and the American people, be nice to see what the voters say. But I can tell you it started minutes in, it started with the first couple of answers, and it has continued throughout the night from a “Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,” to “What do we do about this?” And it involves very senior people in the Democratic Party, including elected officials, saying “we have a problem.”

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