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Democrats concerned after Biden’s debate performance as Trump gets away with lies and deflections – live

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Democrats’ reviews of Joe Biden’s debate performance against Donald Trump are in, and they are not positive While many of his allies were expressing concerns over his debate performance, Joe Biden headed over to speak to supporters at a watch party, and showed no indication of pulling out of the second debate scheduled for early September. “He’s just a liar,” Biden said of Trump. “ I can’t think of one thing he said that was true, not being facetious. But look, we’re going to beat this guy. We need to beat this guy, and I need you in order to beat him.” He concluded with: “Let’s keep going. See you at the next one.” Teams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don’t want you to see. Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science. Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press. Bad actors spreading disinformation online to undermine democracy. ***

In comments that came as close as any to addressing his stumbles against Trump in last night’s debate, Biden acknowledged that he is indeed old, but believes he can still beat the former president in the November election. “I know I’m not a young man, to the state the obvious. Well, I know I don’t walk as easy as I used to, I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to, I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth,” the president said. He went on: I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done. I know, like millions of

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