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The day following what even his own party is calling a game-changing debacle of a presidential debate, doddering liar Joe Biden spoke for 20 minutes at a campaign stop in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was interrupted literally every sentence with roars of approval and chants of “Four more years!” from a suspiciously overzealous crowd. Supporters who suffered through his dismal performance in last week’s debate against former President Donald Trump were astounded by the Joe Biden they saw the very next day in Raleigh. He was energized, coherent, and in full voice apart from a few coughs, giving many Democrats new hope that perhaps he is up for four more years after all, and the party won’t have to fall back on epically incompetent, deeply unpopular diversity hire Vice President Kamala Harris as the party nominee.

Check out an excerpt from the Raleigh rally:

But the vigor of Biden’s Raleigh appearance raises a troubling question: if Biden benefitted so dramatically from teleprompters, boisterous fans in the audience, and likely more enhanced or effective medication for the Friday morning speech, why were some or all of these elements not produced by his staff for the 51 million viewers of the CNN debate only nine hours earlier? It was Team Biden, for example, that demanded that there be no live audience for the debate studio.

The difference was so stark that many wonder if Biden was actually set up to perform poorly in the debate by his handlers – the real Powers That Be who have been pulling the strings throughout his presidency. There was already widespread speculation that the Party had been looking for an excuse to ditch decrepit Joe and usher in a replacement candidate who has a shot at beating Trump; the debate may have been just the opportunity the Democrat conspirators were looking for.

Unfortunately for the Left, though, even if the party overcomes the many procedural obstacles they face trying to change horses in mid-stream, they have no one who can guarantee victory in November – not former First Lady Michelle Obama, who has repeatedly insisted she has no interest in sitting in the Oval Office; not California Governor Gavin Newsom, who would kill to sit in the Oval Office, but who has the wrong skin color and genitalia to leapfrog over Kamala Harris; and not Kamala herself, who couldn’t beat Trump with a stick.

In any case, the Democrats still have to get through Jill Biden to convince Joe to back out, and she seems hell-bent on keeping her husband in the race. So the party is stuck with Joe for now, and their shaky, post-debate strategy seems to be to market him as the honest candidate while hammering Trump as a liar with “the morals of an alley cat,” as Biden said both during the debate and in the campaign stop in Raleigh. Barack Obama himself reminded people on social media that “bad debate nights happen” but

this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit.

What shameless gaslighting. As Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams has noted on X (Twitter), Trump may exaggerate and use hyperbole like the salesman and dealmaker he is, but Biden’s lies are of a completely different, much more serious magnitude.

The Federalist has compiled an “authoritative list” of Biden’s lies: 379 of them and counting, as of mid-September – and that’s just during his presidency. In last week’s debate alone he added another 20+, including repeating the debunked “very fine people” smear against Trump and claiming falsely that he didn’t raise taxes for “anybody making less than $400,000 a year,” which he also repeated in his Raleigh speech.

In addition to lies from Biden himself, the power-hungry Machiavellians of the Democrat party itself have perpetrated one grotesque lie after another, such as the Russian collusion hoax, in order to undermine Trump and get Biden into the White House in the first place.

Arguably the biggest lie is that the 2020 presidential election was free and fair, and that Trump and his supporters are “election deniers” and A Threat to Democracy™ who attempted violently on January 6, 2021 to overturn the results. Biden falsely claimed both in the debate and in Raleigh that no court in the land found any grounds for Trump’s challenge of the election outcome (in fact, those courts only refused to look at the evidence).

Does anyone truly believe that unlikeable Joe Biden racked up 13 million more votes in 2020 than Democrat messiah Barack Obama’s record number of votes in 2008? That he couldn’t muster a crowd of supporters larger than a football team on the few occasions on which he campaigned publicly, and yet scored seven million more votes than Trump, the second-highest vote earner in American history? This is the real election “denial” – the Democrat lie that Biden’s victory was legitimate, and that Trump and the MAGA movement are insurrectionists for challenging it.

In fact, as we all now know, our Deep State-riddled intelligence agencies committed election interference in 2020 by colluding with the Biden-backing mainstream media to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. Nearly four out of five Americans believe “truthful” coverage of that scandal would have changed the outcome of the presidential election. Indeed, Newsbusters reported on Biden voters’ awareness of eight key issues, including the Hunter laptop lie, and concluded,

One of every six Biden voters we surveyed (17%) said they would have abandoned the Democratic candidate had they known the facts about one or more of these news stories. A shift of this magnitude would have changed the outcome in all six of the swing states won by Joe Biden, and Donald Trump would have comfortably won a second term as president.

Joe Biden is and always has been the model Democrat: a corrupt, mean-spirited, hypocritical, opportunistic, ruthlessly ambitious, lifelong politician who has no qualms about resorting to character assassination against his opponents. Now he is all of those things and senile as well; not even most Democrats, who pushed the blatantly false narrative that Biden was as “sharp and engaged” as ever, and that Trump is actually the mentally unfit one, can deny any longer that Joe is, at a minimum, unfit to serve a second term. Hence their utter panic and disarray over how to move forward and with whom.

Not even rampant voter fraud may save the Democrats this time.

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