For Democrats, Thursday night’s debate was a nightmare. President Joe Biden’s performance at the Atlanta face-off, viewed by more than 50 million, sparked a panic, with a flurry of editorials and commentators pleading with the 81-year-old Biden to drop out. New York Times reporter Katie Rogers, who covers the Biden White House, said, “There is
The debate over the presidential debate – CBS News Watch CBS News CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa examines the political fallout from Thursday’s debate between President Joe Biden and the presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, and talks with New York Times White House reporter Katie Rogers, Democratic Party strategist Faiz Shakir,
For months before the first debate, the nation’s voters repeatedly expressed doubts over whether President Biden had the cognitive health enough to serve. Today, those doubts have grown even more: now at nearly three-quarters of the electorate, and now including many within his own party. And today, after the debate with former President Trump, an increased
President Biden claimed that his disastrous debate performance swayed more undecided voters to his side than former President Trump.
Morris Bishop, the man who arranged for Vladimir Nabokov’s job at Cornell, and eventually became his best friend, begins his biography of Blaise Pascal by writing, “Blaise Pascal was, simply, one of the greatest men that have ever lived.” The abbé Jean Steinman, in his 1954 study of Pascal, claimed that “outside the Bible there
What is the essence of a diplomat’s charm? Perfect manners infused with personal warmth; self-confidence leavened by self-deprecation; a fund of anecdote that never degenerates into gossip; an ability to drop names, not obnoxiously but just enough to make the listener feel they’re getting the inside track; a little more erudition than you expect; a
There is perhaps no issue on Capitol Hill that brokers less agreement than policies to address climate change. On the left, doom-forecasters and activists claim the planet will be irreparably broken without major action, requiring the government to change everything from the cars we drive to the number of indigenous women employed to build the