On MSNBC, the mood turns somber following Biden’s debate performance
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On MSNBC, the mood Thursday night was somber.
On MSNBC, the mood Thursday night was somber. “I am not going to put a fine sheen on it, or a spin on it, even though I am in the spin room,” MSNBC anchor Alex Wagner said from the CNN presidential debate spin room in Atlanta. “There has been a uniformly negative reaction to Biden’s performance tonight.” Wagner was speaking about the reaction from Democratic sources, but on the cable news channel that’s seen as the home to America’s progressive political wing, the mood on set was stark. “This was about revealing who Donald Trump was, but it was also Joe Biden battling a caricature of himself as an enfeebled person,” Wagner said of the debate. “And he did nothing to disabuse, I think, the country of the notion that he is very old and was lost frequently in that debate.” While the Democratic party immediately declared victory following President Joe Biden’s debate with former President Donald Trump, Biden’s poor performance on the CNN stage, in which the 81-year-old spoke in a hoarse and at-times unintelligible voice as Trump unleashed a flurry of lies, set off alarm bells on the left.