President Joe Biden was praised by his wife on Thursday following his first presidential debate appearance despite a widely-criticized performance.<\/p>\n
First Lady Jill Biden greeted her husband on stage at the debate after-party with a live audience, seeming to celebrate the mere fact that the president responded to moderators\u2019 questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Joe, you did such a great job! You answered every question, you knew all the facts!\u2019 Jill Biden cheered to a smiling Joe Biden on-stage.<\/p>\n
\u2018And let me ask the crowd. \u2018What did Trump do?\u2019 the first lady continued, turning to the audience and gesturing before shouting \u2018Lie!\u2019<\/p>\n
The moment has gone viral since the debate, with many articles reporting on Jill Biden\u2019s manner of speaking being reminiscent of praising a child.<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s performance at the debate has been almost universally panned by commentators due to his inarticulate speaking and unstable demeanor.<\/p>\n
Repeated stammering, long periods of silence and facial expressions that conveyed intense confusion have convinced some of Biden\u2019s loudest cheerleaders that the president must step down from the re-election campaign.<\/p>\n
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, a longtime Biden ally, wrote the debate \u2018made me weep\u2019 and realize Biden should step aside.<\/p>\n
\u2018I cannot remember a more heartbreaking moment in American presidential campaign politics in my lifetime \u2014 precisely because of what it revealed: Joe Biden, a good man and a good president, has no business running for re-election,\u2019 he wrote.<\/p>\n
CNN commentator Van Jones, who cried for joy when Biden won the 2020 presidential election, offered an emotional plea for the president to step aside.<\/p>\n
\u2018I love that guy as a good man. He loves his country. He\u2019s doing the best that he can. But he had a test to meet tonight, to restore confidence of the country and of the base, and he failed to do that,\u2019 Jones said. \u2018And I think there\u2019s a lot of people who are going to want to see him consider taking a different course now.\u2019<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital\u2019s Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n
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