'Painful' Biden debate performance sends Democrats into 'a very aggressive panic:' CNN panel

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CNN analysts discussed growing panic surrounding President Biden in the immediate aftermath of his "dismal" performance in Thursday's debate against former President Donald Trump.

"This was a game-changing debate in the sense that right now, as we speak, there is a deep, a wide and a very aggressive panic in the Democratic Party. It started minutes into the debate and it continues right now," CNN host John King said.

He continued, "It involves party strategists, it involves elected officials, it involves fundraisers. And they‘re having conversations about the president’s performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket, and they‘re having conversations about what they should do about it."

King added, "Some of those conversations include, ‘Should we go to the White House and ask the president to step aside?’ Other conversations are about, should prominent Democrats go public with that call? But because they feel this debate was so terrible…they do say in moments in the debate later, the president got better and got his footing, but then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting, the contrast between the two candidates."

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While King said he believes some Republicans "don’t think Donald