With the eyes of the world watching - and many for the first time since the campaign began in earnest – America’s oldest-ever president failed to meet the moment.
Joe Biden had one job in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election: to persuade voters that he is mentally and physically capable of another four years in the White House.AP
The president had sought this historically early debate hoping to build fresh momentum to make November’s election less of a referendum on him, and more of a choice about two starkly different visions for the future. Do they continue with the incumbent president, knowing there’s always the risk of Trump returning to power?
Trump, meanwhile, didn’t exactly put on a stellar performance either. He consistently evaded answering questions directly, repeatedly lied or exaggerated about issues such as the border crisis, abortion and climate change, and got increasingly nasty as the night wore on.
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