Bridget, I cannot answer for the vast majority of voters who think he is too old to run for a second term. I'm just saying, by all accounts, they do.
As far as I'm concerned, when he decided to run again in April 2023, I felt he was the only Dem that could beat Trump. He had just come off of a terrific SOTU. I said at the time, "If he keeps this up, he'll win a second term." I didn't think much of Kamala at that time. I thought a great deal of Pete B and Whitmer, but I didn't think enough conservatives would vote for a woman, and I was sure they wouldn't vote for a gay man. I liked Shapiro and Wes Moore, but they had only just been elected.
Biden's abysmal debate performance and the dearth of appearances he made on TV immediately following it to assure the voters that it was an event, not a condition, as Pelosi put it, convinced me he's not the Joe I voted for in 2020 or the Joe at the terriffic SOTU last March and therefore he cannot beat Trump. That is the only thing that matters.
As to the alternative, Kamala is looking way better to me than she did 15 months ago. She's been killing it on the stump, and this podcast convinced me that she had to be something other than the law and order Dem she was known as in 2020 because of the political moment then (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyvaxlKuOuE&list=PLdMrbgYfVl-szepgVpArP0obwYgbKdfvx&index=1).
So Joe Biden who went to the beaches of Normandy, went back to the Belleau Woods cemetery, took several campaign events is weak?
Compared to the guy who slept during his trial and needs a golf cart to get around?
Bridget, I cannot answer for the vast majority of voters who think he is too old to run for a second term. I'm just saying, by all accounts, they do.
As far as I'm concerned, when he decided to run again in April 2023, I felt he was the only Dem that could beat Trump. He had just come off of a terrific SOTU. I said at the time, "If he keeps this up, he'll win a second term." I didn't think much of Kamala at that time. I thought a great deal of Pete B and Whitmer, but I didn't think enough conservatives would vote for a woman, and I was sure they wouldn't vote for a gay man. I liked Shapiro and Wes Moore, but they had only just been elected.
Biden's abysmal debate performance and the dearth of appearances he made on TV immediately following it to assure the voters that it was an event, not a condition, as Pelosi put it, convinced me he's not the Joe I voted for in 2020 or the Joe at the terriffic SOTU last March and therefore he cannot beat Trump. That is the only thing that matters.
As to the alternative, Kamala is looking way better to me than she did 15 months ago. She's been killing it on the stump, and this podcast convinced me that she had to be something other than the law and order Dem she was known as in 2020 because of the political moment then (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyvaxlKuOuE&list=PLdMrbgYfVl-szepgVpArP0obwYgbKdfvx&index=1).