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'Morals of an alley cat!': Biden slams Trump over 'public molestation' and porn-star cases

A visibly frail Joe Biden found the strength to rip adjudicated rapist and hush money silencer Donald Trump, forcefully asserting at the debate stage Thursday night: "You have the morals of an alley cat!"

Biden's forceful attack came as a counter to Trump, who said he would have successful "retribution" over his political rivals if elected.

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'Looooool': Social media pounces on Trump nodding as Biden insults him to his face

Donald Trump remained silent and nodded meekly when his rival for the White House, incumbent President Joe Biden pointed out that he's a convict.

"The only person on this stage that is a convicted felon is the man I'm looking at right now," Biden told Trump while throwing daggers with his eyes.

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'Mop up operation': Biden campaign has a simple explanation for flawed debate performance

Before the debate even ended on Thursday night, President Joe Biden's team seemed to be in damage control.

Kelly O'Donnell, senior White House correspondent for NBCNews, tweeted that two sources familiar with the "situation" offered a possible explanation: “President Biden has a cold.”

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'Wrong and gross': Internet recoils after Trump uses 'Palestinian' as a slur for Biden

During a portion of the CNN debate on the Middle East and the Israel/Hamas War, former President Donald Trump took a bizarre turn by using "Palestinian" as a slur when addressing President Joe Biden.

Biden has "become like a Palestinian" Trump said — except he's a "weak one."

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'I don't think that was good': Internet skewers Joe Biden for 'beat Medicare' debate lapse

President Joe Biden was trying to defend his administration's effort to combat the COVID pandemic when he drew a blank.

"Making sure we make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with Covid, excuse me, with — umm — dealing with everything we had to deal with."

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Biden confronts Trump on abortion: 'It's been a terrible thing what you've done'

President Joe Biden clashed with former President Donald Trump over the end of federal abortion rights.

At Thursday night's presidential debate, moderator Dana Bash asked Trump if he would ban abortion drugs as president.

"You take credit for the decision to overturn Roe v.Wade, which returned the issue of abortion to the states," Bash said. "As president, would you block abortion medication?"

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Biden's early debate performance could send Democrats into 'full-blown panic': reporter

President Joe Biden's debate performance could send Democrats into a tailspin.

That's the analysis from Intelligencer political columnist Jonathan Chait, who live-reacted to the debate Thursday night between former President Donald Trump and President Biden.

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'You're the sucker, you're the loser': Biden hits Trump on reported veteran comments

President Joe Biden got aggressive during a segment of the CNN debate in which the subject turned to military affairs.

The president went after former President Donald Trump for the 2020 reporting in The Atlantic, where Trump allegedly visited a World War I grave site and labelled American troops who died as "losers" and "suckers."

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'Heads are going to roll': Internet surprised and concerned by Biden's debate performance

Joe Biden's debate performance led to calls for heads to roll — within the first 30 minutes — with some calling it "one of the worst performances I have ever seen."

Biden's shaky, raspy voice and struggles to keep a coherent thought together baffled social media with a wave of befuddled comments.

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Raspy Biden rips Trump's 'greatest economy' remark: 'He's the only one that thinks that'

President Joe Biden slammed his rival on the debate stage on Thursday night during a discussion on the economy.

A raspy Biden launched into the debate telling CNN debate host Jake Tapper he inherited an "economy in free fall" and jabbed Trump's pandemic response — "just a little bleach in your arm."

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Biden trolls Trump with 'performance enhancer' can of water before walking into debate

Former President Donald Trump and his allies have been pushing a narrative that President Joe Biden would come onto the debate stage hopped up on drugs — a baseless allegation that appears to suggest their concern that Biden could outperform expectations.

Biden responded with a trolling bit on social media.

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'Your views have changed': CNN host reminds Elise Stefanik of her past Trump disdain

Whatever she said about Donald Trump in the past means squat, given his "positive success" in running the country.

Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-NY), who is a dogged Trump surrogate and shortlisted to join his ticket as V.P., appeared on CNN's "Out Front" ahead of the debate and was confronted with a series of digs she lobbed publicly over the years slamming the former president's character and policy shortfalls.

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Biden camp sees two 'best' fundraising hours of entire campaign just before debate: report

Welcome to Boomtown, population: Joe Biden.

The Biden campaign saw its "best fundraising hour of the entire campaign," from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday ahead of the much-anticipated first debate of the 2024 election season, a Biden campaign official told NBC News.

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