After Joe Biden’s stumbling performance in Thursday’s presidential debate, Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker told Semafor on Friday that she was “very much so” vindicated on her outlet’s coverage of the president’s mental acuity. The Journal took direct aim at the president in a lengthy piece earlier this month headlined, “Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping,” pulling from dozens of interviews with top aides to the president and lawmakers, on both sides of the aisle, who are in frequent contact with him. Tucker told Semafor that her “reporters took a lot of grief for covering a story that needed to be covered and that no other main stream publishers were willing to touch.” Other mainstream liberal pundits, thought to be close allies of the Biden camp, also cast their doubts following the debate. The likes of Nicholas Kristof, David Axelrod, Ben Rhodes, Claire McCaskill and even “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough tugged at their collars following the debate.
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