LOADING ERROR LOADING Bob Woodward , a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and associate editor of the Washington Post , is calling on reporters to “very aggressively” seek “an explanation” for President Joe Biden ’s disastrous performance during Thursday’s debate against Donald Trump . Woodward, who said so Friday on MSNBC ’s “The Beat,” told Ari Melber he was “shocked.” “Biden’s performance was so bad, so awful, the way I look at it as a reporter, there must be some explanation,” Woodward told Melber .
“What really happened? He was preparing for this a long time, he knew it was consequential, and then it was this bad.” Advertisement “The answer here is in reporting — in seeking, very aggressively, an explanation,” the Post editor added. Woodward, known for uncovering the 1970s Watergate scandal involving then-President Richard Nixon , argued this explanation shouldn’t “come out in some book” in the future, but that the public needs it “now” — and likened Biden’s performance to a “political hydrogen bomb.
” “I sat there and watched it, and I could not believe it,” Woodward told Melber, likening Biden’s poor showing to a “political hydrogen bomb.” Woodward has joined a growing chorus of political pundits casting doubt on Biden’s ability to win the upcoming election. Those voices now also include the New York Times’ editorial board, whose op-ed calling for Biden to step down was published during Woodward’s inter.
