 Electric Slide by Marie Griffiths. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González. At a campaign event in Virginia Tuesday, President Joe Biden blamed a heavy travel schedule for his disastrous debate performance last week, when he appeared disjointed, frequently lost his train of thought. Biden said, quote, didn't listen to my staff and came back and nearly fell asleep on stage, unquote.