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Robert Tait in Washington

American media heavyweights tell president: it’s time to quit

Trump supporters at a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, the day after the presidential debate.
Trump supporters at a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, the day after the presidential debate. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

Amid a howling chorus of derision over Joe Biden’s substandard debate performance against Donald Trump, one voice seemed to resonate more powerfully than others.

At 6.15pm on Friday – roughly 19 hours after the two presidential candidates left the stage in Atlanta the previous evening – the verdict of the New York Times’s editorial board dropped online to the newspaper’s subscribers.

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