LOADING ERROR LOADINGBob Woodward, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and associate editor of the Washington Post, is calling on reporters to “very aggressively” seek “an explanation” for President Joe Biden’s disastrous performance during Thursday’s debate against Donald Trump. Woodward, who said so Friday on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” told Ari Melber he was “shocked.”“Biden’s performance was so bad, so awful, the way I look at it as a reporter, there must be some explanation,” Woodward told Melber. Woodward, known for uncovering the 1970s Watergate scandal involving then-President Richard Nixon, argued this explanation shouldn’t “come out in some book” in the future, but that the public needs it “now” — and likened Biden’s performance to a “political hydrogen bomb.”“I sat there and watched it, and I could not believe it,” Woodward told Melber, likening Biden’s poor showing to a “political hydrogen bomb.”Advertisement“Well, it’s inevitable,” said Woodward when Melber broke the news on-air. Noting Biden must have been “holed up for days” to prepare for the debate, Woodward said he didn’t want “to speculate on possible explanations” for the president’s performance — but said that question is what journalists should focus on answering. President Biden, seen here Friday at a post-debate campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Huffington Post June 30, 2024 13:41 UTC