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Rick Hasen: “Assuming Biden voluntarily withdraws, there are two main election law questions: the rules of the convention, and the rules of ballot access. The rules of the convention are…

David Kurtz: “Biden’s right-wing foes have been spinning out cheap fakes for weeks, selectively editing videos to cast him in the most decrepit, senile light possible.” “Last night, Biden embodied…

“The Supreme Court on Friday reduced the authority of executive agencies, sweeping aside a longstanding legal precedent that required courts to defer to the expertise of federal administrators in carrying…

Dan Pfeiffer: “Not sure what else to say. Joe Biden was bad.” “The President wanted this debate on this timeline. It was a high risk move. Given the dynamics of…

“The Supreme Court on Friday upheld an Oregon city’s laws aimed at banning homeless residents from sleeping outdoors, saying they did not violate the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual…

Seth Masket: “Now, there’s a longstanding norm that presidential debate moderators aren’t supposed to do fact-checking in real time. This is something Candy Crowley got in trouble for back in…

Wall Street Journal: “The panic was widespread, they said, but there was little consensus on a plan forward. Some tried to game out scenarios that could lead to a change…

Heather Cox Richardson: “This was not a debate. It was Trump using a technique that actually has a formal name, the Gish gallop, although I suspect he comes by it…

“President Biden brushed off Democrats’complaints about his performance at the debate with former President Donald Trump and indicated that he had no plans to rethink his candidacy,” the New York…

New York Times: “Major Democratic donors spent Thursday night into Friday morning exchanging nervous texts, emojis and GIFs. Some members of the national finance committee were in Atlanta to see…

Brendan Buck: “If a debate cannot be won but only lost, Donald Trump may not have won on Thursday — but President Joe Biden certainly lost, and in spectacular fashion….

Nate Silver: “Maybe Biden could survive by playing prevent defense — although the White House has been trying that and it hasn’t been working — if he were leading. But…

Al Hunt: “Joe Biden lost a presidential debate, rather than assuaging voters’ fears about his age and capabilities only reaffirmed them.” “Biden was halting, encumbered by a raspy voice, and…

Here is how “one of the most seasoned political pros” in Democratic politics framed the more likely way forward to Politico: “First, it was a pretty shocking performance by Biden,…

Playbook: “The mass panic among Democrats began last night about 12 minutes into the debate.” “President Joe Biden was answering a question about the national debt. He confused trillionaires and…

Walter Shapiro: “More than a half century after he was elected to the Senate and in the midst of his fourth presidential race, Joe Biden should spend the weekend facing…

Joe Klein: “It was worse than disastrous. It was sad, it was humiliating. Biden looked like a hospice patient who got lost on his way to the bathroom. That was…

New Republic: “Thursday’s debate should have been a tap-in. All Biden had to do was appear mildly competent. All he had to do was let Donald Trump be Donald Trump….

As I wrote last night, the only good thing about last night’s debate for Democrats is that there’s still more than four months before the presidential election. That means they…

David Frum: “The debate was a travesty—because its whole premise was to treat a failed coup leader as a legitimate candidate for the presidency again.” Save to Favorites