A poor debate performance has fuelled Democrat unease about Mr Biden's candidacy.

The first presidential debate is done and the aftermath has not been good for the incumbent, Joe Biden.

Some Democrat politicians and operatives reportedly texted CNN commentators with hopes that Mr Biden, 81, would step aside. Some floated the possibility of going to the White House and publicly stating concerns about him remaining as candidate.

But if Mr Biden were to drop out, it would be a free-for-all. There is no official mechanism for him or anyone else in the party to choose his successor, meaning Democrats would be left with an open (Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago from August 19-22.

  • @talEnglish
    32•2 days ago

    Stewart (and Colbert) are literally a clown

    what this job even freaken entails.

    You know Volodymyr Zelenskyy, current president of Ukraine?

    He’s a comedian who did a political satire TV series about being president of Ukraine.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy

    Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. Before his acting career, he obtained a degree in law from the Kyiv National Economic University. He then pursued a comedy career and created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series Servant of the People, in which Zelenskyy played a fictional Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party with the same name as the TV show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.

    EDIT: Darn, someone else apparently mentioned it as well, checking their link. I’m still gonna leave this text up, though.