Daily Beast: “According to advisers close to the president, the act was not purely impulsive, but strategic—born out of a strategy that sought to confuse and confound Biden with the ultimate goal of getting the former vice president to stumble and lose his train of thought. But in the aftermath of the carnage, even some of the president’s own boosters couldn’t help but concede that he had spent an hour and a half acting like a feral animal.”
“‘I think on the Trump side, it was too hot,’ former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who had done debate prep with Trump leading up to Tuesday, said on ABC. ‘Listen, you come in and decide you want to be aggressive and that was the right thing, to be aggressive. But that was too hot.’ Reached for comment late Tuesday night, Ed Rollins, a veteran GOP strategist who fronts the pro-Trump group Great America PAC, simply responded, ‘Wow. I have seen nothing like this ever. Don’t want to comment any further.’ Asked if the president did a good job or not, Rollins would only reply, ‘No comment.'”