At the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate Thursday, frontrunner Joe Biden ended up on the wrong end of a headline-grabbing exchange with California Sen. Kamala Harris over race. The rather tense back and forth became, as Politico dubbed it, the “most viral moment” of the debate and, along with Biden’s announcement that the first thing he’d do as president would be to “defeat Donald Trump,” helped ensure that he would not walk away the winner of his first chance to prove that he actually deserves to be leading in the polls.
It didn’t take long for reports to circulate that Team Biden was “freaking out” about how poorly he performed. “A source close to the Biden campaign tells me his staff is ‘freaking out’ about his poor performance tonight,” New York Magazine’s Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi tweeted Thursday.
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