‘Joe Biden’s Gotta Go’: Mehdi Hasan Says It’s Time for President to ‘Step Aside’ Following ‘Car Crash’ Debate Performance

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.

Hasan then played a clip from the debate of Trump mocking Biden for rambling incoherently.

“Look, I’m not saying that Joe Biden is going to lose the presidential election because of tonight’s debate. The race is still too ridiculously close to call at this point,” Hasan continued. “But it’s not looking good, and what I am saying is that you’re deluded if you believe Joe Biden at this stage in his life is the best person the Democrats have to offer against Donald Trump, against a fascist. You’re mad if you believe that.”

He concluded, “But there’s still time, Democrats. There’s still a convention to be had in Chicago. Because small-d American democracy, if it is to survive, needs Democrats, big-D Democrats, to put their big boy pants on and get their act together.”

CNN’s Van Jones also called on Biden to step aside following the debate on Thursday, along with New York Times columnist Nick Kristof.

“Our only hope is that he bows out, we have a brokered convention, or dies,” said one Democratic donor adviser to Politico. “Otherwise we are fucking dead.”

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