President Biden struggled through a raspy voice and uneven delivery Thursday to unleash a charged and deeply personal attack on his longtime rival, former president Donald Trump, who responded in kind with a blizzard of personal jibes and falsehoods at the first presidential debate of the cycle.
Biden noticeably stumbled at times as he delivered his retorts with a thin voice, mumbled words and occasional look of confusion - a performance that drew immediate worries among Democrats concerned about his age and perceived fragility among many voters.
Trump, who attempted to deliver a less voluble and defiant performance than past debates, based many of his answers around falsehoods that went unchallenged by the debate moderators.
In the sharpest exchanges of the night, Biden accused Trump of having “the morals of an alley cat” for allegedly having “sex with a porn star,” a reference to allegations Trump still denies that were a part of his recent criminal trial in New York.
Caption from reporting by Toluse Olorunnipa, Michael Scherer and Isaac Arnsdorf
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