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Jen, thanks for your message.

I don't use the term "gaslighting" without reservation. But when loyalists insist that we should ignore what all America saw (and will see again and again until November) was not a man stumbling over one line. Nor was it just a case of one bad night.

It confirmed everything Trump supporters have been telling me for the past year.

He confirmed it.

To say otherwise is to adopt a Kim Jung Un cult like view of reality.

The fact Biden is on top of the ticket is just a symptom of an ailment the Dems have suffered from since 2008, the last time they held a leadership contest and not a coronation.

The Dems lost in 2016 because because as capable Hillary may be as a president, she was a lousy candidate.

Joe Bifen may be a very capable president, but he is clearly unable to perform the role of candidate.

We were stuck with Trump in 2016 because the Dems insisted it "was Hillary's turn", as if there was a set ranking of succession.

The role of candidate is a completely different job than that of president.

It shouldn't be, but America has chosen to have year's long campaigns instead of, say, 28 day ones like in the UK.

You can be a great president but you must be elected first.

Biden should never have chosen to run in 2024.

He will destroy his legacy, and very possibly the very democracy.

Loyalty to the man, Joe Biden, should never supersede loyalty to the common good.

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