Biden’s Debate ‘Performance’ Doesn’t Change That Trump Is ‘Traitorous,’ Advocate Says

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With some prominent voices, like writers for The New York Times, heaping scrutiny on President Joe Biden after a debate with Donald Trump on Thursday night where the incumbent was accused of a weak performance, Tara Setmayer — who steers the superPAC called The Seneca Project — was drawing attention on Friday back to Trump’s argued problems.

“A bad debate performance by Biden doesn’t change the material facts about Trump. He’s a traitorous, unhinged, unfit, liar, convicted felon, who will surround himself with an administration full of right wing extremists who want to subjugate women, take our freedoms away & destroy our American democracy by any means necessary,” Setmayer wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Trump must be defeated. Stay focused on the objective.”

Though the idea was quickly batted around, there is no specific indication following the debate that Biden, advanced in age as he is, actually will step aside from the race for president, leaving the Democratic nomination to somebody else like Vice President Kamala Harris.

The debate was held just before imminent convention proceedings for the major parties at which Biden and Trump have long been expected to become the Democratic and Republican nominees again, respectively. None of their primary challengers got particularly far. On the Republican side, where there were actually quite a few at one point, many of them turned around to just back Trump as he’s locked down the GOP nomination for president.

Trump’s time at the debate featured familiar falsehoods, like conspiracy theories of systematic fraud in the 2020 presidential election and claims that the southern border to the United States is “open,” the latter of which is something that federal border security figures have refuted to Congress. Trump complained feverishly about migrants and characterized the United States as under an existential threat.