The View hosts weigh in with brutal response to Biden's dire debate performance

The View hosts shared scathing reactions to President Biden's disastrous debate performance as they sensationally called for him to 'step down' from the White House. 

While the daytime TV hosts typically leap to the Democrats' defense, they struggled to find many positives following Biden's 'hard to watch' debate. 

'It pains me to say this today, but I think President Biden needs to step down and be replaced,' Sara Haines began the show's political segment, feeling that was the only way to 'defeat Donald Trump in November.' 

Sunny Hostin chimed in to dismiss early excuses for Biden's floundering speech, saying that 'we all saw Biden lose that debate.' 

'Blame it on a cold, blame it on his stuttering, blame it on overpreparation, whatever. But he did lose. Maybe he needs to go. Maybe he needs to be honest with himself and the American people,' she said. 

It comes as Biden's odds of defeating Trump in November plummeted overnight, according to betting markets, while rumors swirl that Democrat leaders could look to replace him on the ticket. 

Just hours before the debate began, The View hosts were standing proudly behind Biden's candidacy, with Joy Behar arguing that it is 'not fair' to imply the 81-year-old suffers from 'senior moments.' 

'All this senior moment business, everybody has a senior moment… it’s still not fair to the guy,' she said, adding that Trump's mic being silenced if he interrupted was 'not enough because Joe can still hear him.' 

But the hosts struggled to hit a similar note following Biden's rambling efforts on Thursday night, with Behar instead choosing to take shots at Trump as a 'felon' before her co-hosts continued to slam Biden. 

'I've been told for a long time, put country before party and support Joe Biden. He needs to put country before his own ambition and he needs to step aside and pass the baton,' former Trump communications aide Alyssa Farah Griffin said.  

'Because I'm telling you right now, Trump world is scared when they're hearing rumblings there could be someone else on the ticket. 

'Mark my words, if it's Trump vs Biden, Trump is going to win.' 

Pundits appeared to fall in line after the debate in feeling that Trump won due to his energy and vigor, while a number of his lies and mistruths went unchecked amid criticism of CNN's lack of live fact checking. 

Griffin alluded to this as she said Trump's performance was a 'mess', but 'Joe Biden's performance was so bad it eclipsed everything Donald Trump said. He eclipsed the performance of Donald Trump because the distraction was on Biden's performance.' 

Haines added in that Democrats 'need to stop spinning' around the issue of Biden's age, feeling that they have 'twisted themselves into a pretzel to say, don't believe your lying eyes.' 

'Let me be clear, if November comes and President Biden and President Trump are on the ticket I will be voting for President Biden because the alternative is too scary for me, but I fear that many people in this country do not feel the same way,' she said. 

The View also took the opportunity to hit out at Trump, with Hostin arguing that it was 'ironic' that only Democrats were looking to replace their nominee despite the GOP leader's myriad legal problems. 

'I think it's ironic that the party that should be pressuring their candidate to step aside is the Republican party,' Hostin began. 

'Their nominee is a convicted felon, he's facing hundreds of charges for criminal activity and has been proven to be a racist, a business fraud, liable for sexual abuse, and insurrectionist, and as Biden said, he has the morals of an alley cat. 

'Republicans need to be holding him accountable, the majority of the party which has been cowardly and feckless and complicit and enabling in allowing Trump's racism, bullying, his misogyny.' 

It comes amid growing speculation that Democrats may look to replace Biden at the top of the ticket before the November election. 

Betting markets showed that Biden's chances of re-election took a significant hit overnight, with polling aggregator RealClearPolling, which tracks a number of betting markets, showing that Biden now stands with just a 22.2 percent chance of re-election, compared to Trump's 54.8 percent. 

Biden stood at 35 percent before his feeble performance on the debate stage, still behind Trump, however RealClear's aggregator has Trump easily beating Biden in a number of markets, with the president's worst odds coming from Betfair - at just 16 percent.

Talk of replacing Biden as the Democratic nominee has seen California Governor Gavin Newsom's name floated, with PredictIt now offering Newsom a 14 percent chance of beating Trump in November. 

And at BetOnline - where Biden's odds dropped from +130 to +300 overnight - the company said it received a flurry of bets placed on potential replacements for Biden on the Democrat ticket.

'We just kept taking bets over and over again on Gavin Newsom and Michelle Obama,' BetOnline political oddsmaker Paul Krishnamurty told the New York Post.