Biden War Room Blog for CNN Presidential Debate

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Mo., on Thursday retweeted an interview clip where she tried to shift focus from President Biden and onto Donald Trump with a shot at his character.

"What we saw was someone who sat up there and acting like as if he was some used car salesman that wanted to tell us whatever and pretend as if it was fact," Crockett told reporters.

Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary for the Biden administration and current MSNBC pundit, had some harsh words for her former boss after his debate performance Thursday night.

"It was not a good night for Joe Biden," Psaki said. "I mean, he was great after he was good at the State of the Union. It wasn't a good debate performance."

Psaki bemoaned that the Biden who turned up tonight was not the Biden who gave a fiery State of the Union update, arguing that Biden "goes out and has a strong couple of weeks, it may not be, but it is incumbent upon the campaign to now dig out of this hole."

"We're all getting on texts on email about whether he should be replaced," Psaki revealed. "That chatter is happening. People are asking questions."

"I don't mean it's from the American public writ large and we don't know how they feel and we won't know for some time, and if you look at history, this may not impact them at all, but the chatter is very distracting and it's going to be very consuming for the campaign," she said.

Matt Barretto, the senior advisor to the President Joe Biden policy advocacy group Building Back Together, said in a post on X following the debate that "every single" undecided Latino voter will support Biden.

"If you haven't been watching the Univision FG of undecided Latino voters, nearly every single undecided voter said they now support Biden, not Trump! Latinos were watching and listening and Trump sounded like a crazy liar," Barretto said alongside a video clip from the Spanish-language channel Univision.

Former White House Chief of Staff during President Biden's first three years in office, Jen O'Malley Dillon, released a statement following the CNN Presidential Debate saying former President Donald Trump's performance "reminded the American people why they fired him four years ago, and reinforced just how high the stakes are this November for the future of our country.”

"Tonight, President Biden presented a positive and winning vision for the future of America – one in which every American has a fair shot at the American dream, where every one of our rights are protected, and where our president fights to strengthen our democracy – not to tear it down.

“On the other side of the stage was Donald Trump, who offered a dark and backwards window into what America will look like if he steps foot back in the White House: a country where women are forced to beg for the health care they need to stay alive. A country that puts the interests of billionaires over working people. And a former president who not once, not twice, but three times, failed to promise he would accept the results of a free and fair election this November," O'Malley Dillon said, according to a Team Biden-Harris campaign email Thursday night.

Geoff Garin, co-chief strategist for Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign, took to social media platform X to combat criticism of President Biden's debate performance on Thursday night.

"The freak out over the debate is way overwrought," Garin insisted. "Biden got off to a slow start but he had a strong finish."

"Trump was increasing incoherent and deranged as the debate went on, and Trump's extremism was on full display," Garin wrote.

The Democratic National Commitee (DNC) claimed a victory for President Joe Biden in a post on X following the CNN Presidential Debate.

"The winner of tonight’s debate," the DNC account posted with a photo of the president.

Quoting President Biden, the Biden-Harris HQ social media team posted on social media platform X: "You’re such a whiner. No courts said your claims had any merit when you lost the first time. Not one."

"Yet you continue to provoke this lie," Biden said. "You can’t stand the loss. Something snapped in you when you lost last time."

A Biden-Harris 2024 campaign spokesperson said in a post on X that Trump "was asked THREE times and refused to say yes" about whether he would accept the 2024 General Election results.

"Donald Trump was a threat to democracy in 2020. He's even more of one today," spokesperson Ammar Moussa wrote on X.

Biden for America Senior Spokesperson Lauren Hitt in a post on social media platform X quoted Factcheck.org, which said, "Trump has a history of lying about his record on bringing American hostages home."

She then cited The Washington Post, which wrote, “Trump Stays Silent On Detained U.S. Reporter As He Avoids Criticizing Putin.”

"Listening to Donald Trump lie about the pandemic which killed two of my parents is f---ing insane," Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia wrote in a post on X.

"Over a million Americans died while he was telling people to drink bleach and attacking vaccines. Totally crazy."

President Joe Biden's campaign wrote in a post on X that Trump "once called veterans losers and suckers," after Trump denied that he did so during the CNN Presidential Debate.

"Here’s the truth, Donald: You’re the sucker. You’re the loser," the campaign posted to Biden's official X account.

Team Biden in a post on social media platform X quoted Donald Trump's claim at the CNN Presidential Debate that he "never had sex with a porn star."

In response, Team Biden wrote: "(Yes... he did)"

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took to social media platform X to blast Trump over Roe v Wade, especially his claim that "everyone wanted" Roe overturned.

"Tell that to the 171,000 women who traveled out-of-state for reproductive care last year," Whitmer wrote.

In a separate post, she wrote, "Donald Trump openly brags about how he’s responsible for overturning Roe."

"He’s said that women should face “punishment” for having an abortion," she continued. "Recently, he talked about “looking at” policies to restrict access to contraception. This is what’s at stake in November."

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California claimed in a post on X Thursday night that the "scare tactics being deployed by the GOP to steal women’s freedom is disgusting."

Newsom's post was in an X response to a PolitiFact fact check of former President Donald Trump's claim during the CNN Presidential Debate that there are Democrat-led states that support late-term abortions and "take the life of a child in the eighth month, the ninth month, and even after birth."

"False. Willfully terminating a newborn’s life is illegal in every state," the PolitiFact post claimed.