Democrats are in five-alarm panic mode. Here is a compilation of their reactions after the debate. 🍿

The Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, are running around like Jamaal Bowman just pulled the fire alarm. They are in BIG panic mode.

I’m not exaggerating. The word “panic” comes up multiple times in the clips ahead.

I’ll start just with one paper, the paper of record.

Here’s what the NYT editorial page looks like this morning:

“God help us.”

Here’s Peter Baker:

Democrats … traded frenzied phone calls and text messages within minutes of the start of the debate as it became clear that Mr. Biden was not at his sharpest. Practically in despair, some took to social media to express shock, while others privately discussed among themselves whether it was too late to persuade the president to step aside in favor of a younger candidate.

Here’s how Healy begins his piece:

By the end of the debate, I was hearing a level of anxiety and alarm from those Democrats and several other party leaders and operatives that I’ve never seen in 20 years of covering presidential politics. The discussion turned squarely to the need for the Democratic Party to replace Biden as the 2024 nominee, with four months to go to the election, and how to make that happen.

Within the first half-hour of the presidential debate, I’d heard from three veteran Democratic presidential campaign officials, and all of them had the same reaction to President Biden’s performance: This is a disaster.

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