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James Cartledge's avatar

I don’t understand why Biden thinks he’s the only person who can beat Trump. He’s been a great President, but it seems so selfish and out of character for him to insist on running. You listen to Sarah’s focus groups and it’s just right there front and center: people want competence. His age is the key factor stopping people voting for him. Even if he could potentially do the job, it’s now too much of a risk.

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Mingus Khan's avatar

I say this as someone who pushed back so hard on the "Biden is too old" thing for years, and I never thought he was too old until Thursday night. But now I do. It wasn't "one bad night", it was the worst possible night at the worst possible moment. It wasn't "a bad debate", there has never been a worse debate performance by any other candidate since we've started showing them on TV. I've never voted Republican in my life, not even for a moderate. But if he was running against anyone but a coup plotter he would've lost my vote Thursday night. We all saw what we saw, and that was a person who CANNOT be doing this job in 4 years.

The Titanic had one bad night too but they don't sail on that anymore, do they?

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