13581987 New York Times makes bombshell demand of Joe Biden after the president's disastrous debate performance

After relegating coverage of his disastrous debate performance to a small paragraph in their front page coverage, The New York Times has finally weighed in on Biden's bad night, urging the president to drop out of the race for The White House.

The newspaper's scathing opinion piece observed that Biden appeared to be a 'shadow' of himself and that the argument that he was the best Democratic candidate to take on Trump was no longer valid.

The paper agreed with Biden's opinion that another Trump presidency would be a disaster for the country and would imperil the nation's democracy.

They wrote glowingly about Biden's administration, calling him an 'admirable president.'

But then the Times, unable to ignore the president's awful performance, put it bluntly, saying: 'Mr. Biden can't continue this race.'

This marks a U-turn for the 'paper of record,' who drew flak Friday morning after their print edition of the paper failed to comment Biden's awful showing at the debate.

Instead, the paper focused on issues that were largely peripheral- Iran escalating their nuclear work and an analysis of Julian Assange's legal drama.

This was patently at variance with other major papers like the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, each of whom reported on the debate in the print editions of their papers.

At the bottom of their morning paper, The New York Times merely directed their readers to check out their coverage of the debate online.