Former Obama adviser David Axelrod said the first debate Tuesday evening between President Trump and Joe Biden might foretell the end of the incumbent’s presidency.
“I think Donald Trump may have ended his presidency tonight,” Axelrod, also a CNN political commentator, said during the network’s post-debate coverage of the faceoff.
The debate itself was chaotic and punctuated by interruptions and the two candidates talking over each other. Moderator Chris Wallace attempted, to little avail, to reign in Trump’s interruptions during the matchup, which featured Biden telling the president to “shut up” at one point.
Axelrod called the debate a “spectacle” and suggested that the former vice president may want to cancel the two other planned debates.
“I think Biden has a decision to make,” Axelrod said. “I don’t think the country will be yearning for these.”
“You know what will happen if Biden says he doesn’t want to dignify another debate? I don’t think the country wants another one of these spectacles,” he added.
Steve Scully of CSPAN is set to moderate the next presidential debate, which is scheduled for Oct. 15 in Miami.
