Photo Gallery: Americans watch Trump and Biden in election debate

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, met for the first general election debate of the 2024 season — a chance for the candidates to try to reshape the political narrative and persuade undecided voters.

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Jon Stewart Can’t Defend Biden Debate Disaster: ‘This Cannot Be Real Life’

“The Daily Show” host went live after the debate and was horrified by what he saw from the president.

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Biden Surrogates Left CNN Spin Room 'Abandoned' While Trump Team Answered Questions

No surrogates for President Joe Biden appeared to be in the CNN spin room immediately following the presidential debate.

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Six Takeaways From the First Presidential Debate

In a testy, personal clash, President Biden failed to ease worries about his age, Donald Trump forcefully made his case (with wild claims and exaggerations) and the moderators held their fact-checking fire.

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The Biden Debate Debacle

Democrats have only themselves to blame.

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Trump’s Debate Strategy: Let Biden Bury Himself

Trump’s Debate Strategy: Let Biden Bury Himself

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Democrats called Biden’s performance ‘disaster,’ ‘trainwreck.’ Hear his VP react

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Asked About Their Ages, Biden Deflects and Trump Brags About His Golf Skills

Age has loomed over the 2024 campaign, and neither candidate’s answer might have been enough to push aside voters’ qualms.

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Time to Go, Joe

Biden needs to step aside—for the sake of his own dignity, for the good of his party, for the future of the country.

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CNN’s Daniel Dale fact checks Trump’s and Biden’s claims made in debate

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Trump’s Debate Performance: Relentless Attacks and Falsehoods

The former president’s remarks onstage, repeated often on the campaign trail, were striking with his opponent standing a few feet away.

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First Presidential Debate: Analysis

NBC News' reporters and analysts weigh in on the first debate between President Biden and former President Trump. Hear from from voters, lawmakers, and potential vice presidential picks about their views on how each candidate performed in their first face-off ahead of the 2024 election.

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Newsom on Biden Performance: 'We've All Had Those Nights', Talking About Panic Over It 'Unhelpful' for Democracy

During MSNBC's debate coverage on Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) responded to President Joe Biden's performance by stating that "We've all had | Clips

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Hollywood Celebrities Rage at CNN as Biden Struggles During Debate: 'What is Wrong with These Two Moderators'

Hollywood stars raged at CNN during Thursday's presidential debate as a hoarse and wheezing President Joe Biden struggled to remain coherent and even froze up on live TV.

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CNN’s Chris Wallace: Biden 'Can’t Come Back'

CNN host Chris Wallace said Thursday on CNN's post-presidential debate that President Joe Biden could not recover from his debate performance. | Clips

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Trump rips Biden for not firing generals after botched Afghanistan withdrawal: 'Incompetence'

Former President Trump ripped President Biden in the CNN presidential debate for not firing any of the generals who oversaw the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Biden’s debate performance sets off alarm bells for Democrats

Alarm bells are ringing among top Democrats over the 2024 presidential race and President Joe Biden’s political future, with the president’s debate performance leaving some to openly question whether Biden can stay atop of the Democratic ticket.

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Harris acknowledges Biden had a 'slow start' in debate and tries to calm Democratic fears

Vice President Kamala Harris is acknowledging that President Joe Biden had a “slow start” during his debate against Donald Trump.

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Joe Biden should save his legacy by ending his candidacy

The case for somebody, anybody else.

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Anderson Cooper Presses Kamala Harris About Biden’s Performance

“Yes there was a slow start, but it was a strong finish," the vice president said on Thursday night.

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Candidates have survived bad debates. But is a reckoning afoot after Biden v. Trump?

Team Biden wanted an early debate to shake up the presidential race. This one did, but not in the way they wanted.

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Live updates: Time, channel and how to watch Trump-Biden presidential debate

Follow all the latest build-up as White House rivals prepare to face off on CNN

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Trump Should Never Have Had This Platform

The debate was a travesty—because its whole premise was to treat a failed coup leader as a legitimate candidate for the presidency again.

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CNN moderators in Biden-Trump debate: It almost didn't matter that they were on stage

It almost didn't seem to matter that CNN's Dana Bash and Jake Tapper were on stage for the much-awaited presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

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Iowa leaders want its halted abortion law to go into effect. The state's high court will rule Friday

The Iowa Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on the state’s temporarily blocked abortion law, which prohibits abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and before many women know they are pregnant.

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Here’s Why Putin Loved the Biden/Trump Debate

The Russian leader’s poodle, Donald Trump, confidently sold his authoritarian policies and talking points.

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Top Democratic fundraisers sound the alarm after Biden's debate performance

President Joe Biden's top fundraisers are sounding the alarm on his disappointing debate performance.

40 minutes ago

Donald Trump Boasts About His Cognitive, Physical Health

Polls have indicated that voters are concerned about Donald Trump's and Joe Biden’s ages, but the concerns appear to be greater for Biden.

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Iran votes for its new president amid economic strife, crackdowns and regional war

If there is no clear majority after Friday's vote, the top two candidates face a second round of voting on July 5.

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Trump Avoided A Question He Was Asked 3 Times

The former president's avoiding the question does not bode well for this November’s presidential contest.

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Melania Trump breaks with tradition by skipping presidential debate

Melania Trump was not with her husband when he landed in Atlanta, Georgia

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‘I Aged 37 Years’: How Jill Twiss Got Through That Debate

“If I could ask Congress to pass any law right now it would that Joe Biden must drink a big ol’ glass of water before every debate.”

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Biden struggles in first joust with Trump: 5 takeaways from the presidential debate

President Joe Biden failed to assuage concerns about his age when he misspoke in his first 2024 debate with former President Donald Trump.

44 minutes ago

Who Won the Debate? Biden Stumbles Left Trump on Top

A halting debate performance by President Biden left Democratic strategists reeling, raising questions about his fitness to stay in the race.

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Trump Was Terrible. But Biden Was Worse.

Trump’s lies and unhinged ranting went unchallenged because Biden was incoherent and lost.

46 minutes ago

Panicked Dems Scramble For Biden Replacement After ‘Disaster’ Debate Performance

It took all of thirty minutes for Democrats to begin pontificating about replacing President Joe Biden on the ballot in November during Thursday's debate.

47 minutes ago

Trump turned “Palestinian” into a slur

We've already seen where it leads when presidential candidates embrace such sickening racism.

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Biden to Protect Hundreds of Thousands of Haitians From Deportation

The plan giving temporary protected status to people from the Caribbean island who arrived after November 2022 comes amid a flurry of recent immigration moves by the president.

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Even Kamala Harris acknowledged that Biden's debate performance was rough

Pressed repeatedly, Vice President Harris said she's "not going to debate" that Biden had a "slow start" at the debate.

48 minutes ago

Democrats Privately Sound Alarm Bells About Joe Biden's Debate Performance

One strategist replied to HuffPost's questions with a photo of a coach tapping his arm to signal the need for a pitching change.

50 minutes ago

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Debates Alone, Upset Over Being Left Out

The independent presidential candidate answered the same questions that the CNN hosts asked of former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden.

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Fore more years? Biden and Trump take swings at each other's golf skills in their debate

A clash over golf handicaps prompted some of the feistiest comments in the debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

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Did Trump say Hitler "did a lot of good things"?

During the CNN Presidential debate, Biden attacked Trump for saying Hitler "did a lot of good things," while talking about what happened in Charlottesville in 2017. Did Trump say this?

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Trump was the Trump we know. Biden was the Biden we feared.

Trump raged. Biden aged.

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Calls for Biden to Step Aside Are About to Get Deafening

Calls for Biden to step aside are about to get deafening after a debate that left Democratic insiders gobsmacked, writes Philip Elliott for The D.C. Brief.

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A Raspy Biden Melts Down in Prime Time

President Biden needed to calm concerns about his age and mental acuity. Instead, he inflamed them, raising questions about whether he could carry on as the Democratic nominee.

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John King reacts to Biden and Trump’s performances in the presidential debate

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Reactions claiming winner and loser pour in following Trump and Biden's debate: 'More presidential'

Social media users chimed in on Thursday night with their opinions on who won the CNN presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump.

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MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace: 'Biden's Circle' Have Conversations About Him Dropping Out

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Thursday following the presidential debate that President Joe Biden's inner circle is discussing if he should be in the presidential race. | Clips

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27 Times Biden Repeated the Phrase 'The Idea' During Debate

President Joe Biden used the phrase “the idea” 27 times in the 90-minute debate against former President Trump on Thursday.

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