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‘Tough to watch’: Gov. Healey offers harsh assessment of Biden’s debate performance

But the governor also pointed out what she perceives as the dangers that come along with Donald Trump.

Gov. Maura Healey. Jessica Rinaldi / The Boston Globe

By Peter Chianca

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After an almost universally derided performance in Thursday night’s presidential debate, you can count Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey among the President Joe Biden surrogates who acknowledge that the president did not have a good night.

“Joe Biden had a bad debate performance  — it was tough to watch,” Healey responded when asked about the debate by reporters at the State House Friday, as shown in video posted to X by Politico reporter Kelly Garrity. But the governor also called out the presumptive GOP nominee, former president Donald Trump, for delivering “more of the same” lies and dangerous bluster.

Read the full text of Healey’s remarks below:

“Joe Biden had a bad debate performance  — it was tough to watch. We also saw Donald Trump stand up there and lie, and brag about overturning Roe once again, and taking away health care for women. I also heard him talk about his refusal to accept the results of the last election and refuse to commit to accepting the results of the next election, and refusing to denounce the insurrectionists. So, you know, it’s more of the same from Donald Trump, and we know the stakes couldn’t be higher.”

— Gov. Maura Healey
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Peter Chianca, Boston.com’s general assignment editor since 2019, is a longtime news editor, columnist, and music writer in the Greater Boston area.

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