WASHINGTON — Bob Woodward knows a thing or two about political scandals that could bring down a president.
The famed journalist, who helped expose the Watergate scandal in 1972, told MSNBC on Friday that President Joe Biden’s debate performance was “so bad, so awful” that something must have happened to ruin it.
“I think the answer here is to report, to actively seek an explanation for what happened here,” Woodward said. “We don’t want it to come out in some book or memoir a few years from now, or even a decade from now. We need to know now.”
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Woodward said it was “inevitable” that calls for Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race.
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“His performance, I sat there and watched, and I couldn’t believe it. I said, ‘Not only is this a political hydrogen bomb for the Democrats, but what just happened?’ And looking back, he had been preparing for this for days. He understood the importance of it. A seasoned politician like Biden internalizes and rehearses his lines. I’m sure that was part of it, but somehow he was off his game,” Woodward said.
