Biden looks down with his eyes closed at the debate, standing in front of a microphone with a bright blue background with the CNN logo.
The Biden camp has offered various explanations for his terrible debate performance on Thursday.
  • First a cold, then bad prep, and now jet lag.
  • Biden's campaign has put forth a series of reasons trying to explain his bad debate performance.
  • The explanations come as pressure grows for Biden to step aside and make way for a replacement.

President Joe Biden has offered a new explanation for his disastrous debate performance: jet lag.

Biden's performance at the June 27 debate with former President Donald Trump was at times marked by slurring, vacant expressions, and incoherent sentences.