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“Bumble,” “Bluster” & Questions Over Whether Biden Should Step Down: World Media Reacts To First Presidential Debate
World media has reacted to the Joe Biden vs Donald Trump debate, posing questions about the president's sanity and CNN moderators.
In France, where the country is currently focused on the first round of parliamentary elections this Sunday, in which far right party Rassemblement National is expected to come out on top, the consensus, whatever the political persuasion, was that the debate had been a disaster for the Biden and Democratic camp. “Crossing swords on live TV again for the first time in four years, the current and former president offered the painful spectacle of an extremely diminished Democratic incumbent in the face of the lies spouted by his Republican rival on the network,” wrote left-wing newspaper Liberation’s New York-based correspondent Julien Gester. In the UK, which heads to the polls in less than a week, the BBC described his performance as “disciplined and nimble,” in stark contrast with the “interruptions and belligerence that undermined his first debate showing in 2020.” The item is currently leading the website above an article about campaigners for Trump’s pal Nigel Farage’s new party being “caught making racist slurs.”
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