GOP Lawmakers Exultant After Thursday Debate

Thursday night time’s presidential debate between the previous President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden despatched shockwaves far past the audience-less CNN studio in Atlanta. 

Biden’s stumbling, sputtering efficiency despatched Democrats in a tailspin. Calls for Biden to step down echoed throughout the media panorama, ushering in rampant hypothesis on who ought to interchange Biden atop the Democratic ticket. 

Trump and his marketing campaign noticed blood within the water. The former president, who has a penchant for rambling himself, hit the proper notes on immigration, commerce, and overseas coverage. Trump’s marketing campaign launched an announcement declaring victory earlier than the candidates delivered their closing statements.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are additionally taking a victory lap by writing obituaries for Biden’s presidency, if not for the person himself.

“Clearly, President Biden is unfit for office,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) wrote in an emailed assertion to The American Conservative. “I’ve been saying that as a result of Senator Grassley’s and my investigation into the Biden crime family since 2020. His mental and physical decline has been obvious throughout his presidency.”

“To anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, last night should have been a wake-up call,” the Wisconsin senator added.

“Joe Biden performed exactly as I thought he would,” Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) mentioned in an electronic mail to TAC. “He had difficulty formulating a coherent sentence, and his facts and data were often inaccurate and delivered by a clearly confused man.”

Rosendale added that the results of Biden’s frailty goes past the talk stage: “Joe Biden’s marginalized cognitive state was on full display last night for our county, but also for the world, which puts us in a very dangerous position.”

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) agrees. “First, from a national security standpoint, this is a crisis. From China to Russia to Iran, our adversaries are certainly looking for avenues to exploit what is clearly a void in the Oval Office,” Norman informed TAC. “After Joe Biden’s appearance last night, we are significantly weaker on the international stage.”

“Let’s hope the advisors and staff in the White House know what they’re doing, because it’s clear they’re the ones running the Executive Branch of our government,” Norman continued. “And finally, from his press secretaries to his allies in the media, NEVER FORGET how many people have lied to you about Joe Biden’s cognitive state.”

“Look, I don’t take glee in it, in saying this, but clearly the president struggled tonight,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) informed CNN after the talk. “And I do worry about the impact that that has in Beijing, in Tehran, in places—Moscow—where adversaries see that and feel emboldened to be more adventurous.”

“That’s not a good thing for our country,” Rubio concluded.

“Americans saw the contrast on stage plain as day: a feeble-minded and weak-kneed man who let our country and the world fall apart, and Donald J. Trump, who will restore strength and leadership to the White House,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) tweeted.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) piled on. “Last night, we saw the sad state of President Biden on full display, which Democrat-run media had been working for years to hide, deny, and explain away,” Lee informed TAC. “Well, they can’t deny it any longer. It is unclear whether this man should continue to control America’s nuclear codes until next January.”

“No one watching last night’s debate could ignore Joe’s cognitive failures and inability to grasp even his own policy positions,” mentioned Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ) in an electronic mail remark to TAC. “He’s mentally unfit to serve as Commander in Chief.”

He added, “With Biden up on that stage next to President Trump, the American people witnessed a jarring contrast between a confused, incoherent candidate unqualified for his current position and a strong, sharp leader with a vision who belongs back in the Oval Office.”

“That was cringe,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) mentioned in a radio interview. “I felt sorry for the guy. Here’s a guy that has no idea what he’s doing. He has no idea what his administration does.” 

Meanwhile, Scott mentioned, “Trump was great”:

Trump was engaged. He was respectful. He talked in regards to the points. And Biden took no duty for an open border, no duty for inflation, no duty for horrible overseas coverage. You need to be probably the most partisan Democrat to even recommend that Biden had an important night time.

“If our enemies watched that, which I’m assuming they did, what they know is that we’ve got a guy at the helm that has no ability to perform,” Scott concluded.

With or with out Biden on the ticket, Wisconsin’s Johnson informed TAC, Democrats are poised to lose in November. “As the Democrat party scrambles to replace Biden as their nominee, Americans must also recognize that it hasn’t just been Biden who has put our nation on the path of destruction, it is Democrat governance across the board that has done so,” Johnson mentioned. “Any Democrat replacement candidate will continue the same disastrous policies, regardless of whatever lies they tell to win.”