The New York Times has called on Joe Biden in a startling editorial to drop out of the race for the presidency to “serve his country” following his disastrous performance in the debate against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Amid the extraordinary call by the newspaper, others, including former President Barack Obama, rushed to Biden’s defense. But the stakes are too high to have the wrong man battle the dangerous Trump in a contest that will determine “nothing less than the future of democracy,” the newspaper warned in an editorial highlighted on the front page. Biden “is not the…