Media calls for Biden to withdraw from 2024 race after 'disaster' CNN debate performance: 'It's over'

Members of the media are now openly calling on President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race following his "disaster" CNN debate performance.

"I wish Biden would reflect on this debate performance and then announce his decision to withdraw from the race, throwing the choice of Democratic nominee to the convention," New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote on X.

"Someone like @gretchenwhitmer or @SherrodBrown or @SecRaimondo could still jump in and beat Trump," Kristof added, referring to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, and Biden's Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo.

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Kristof was far from alone.

"Biden will be a one-term president," Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt declared. "He still has the chance to watch a Democrat be inaugurated. There are 68 days until the DNC. Whitmer/Moore beats Trump."

"If Biden truly believes Democracy is on the line, he should step aside and let another democrat step in to take on Trump. Put the country first," said Alyssa Farah Griffin of "The View."

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"This is a disaster," Financial Times associate editor Edward Luce panicked online. "Democrats need to end their self-imposed censorship on Biden and fix this. There's two months until the convention. Other countries hold general elections in less time than that."

"It’s over. Biden looks and sounds ancient. Losing his train of thought. Speaking in a barely audible whisper. They have to pull him!!!" The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur exclaimed.

The popular aggregate website Drudge Report ran the blared the headline "OPERATION: