What's really disturbing about the debate fiasco is there's no way to be confident that Biden has it in him to pull off the near-flawless execution he'll need to win at this point.
At a minimum, the Bidens owe us a real conversation about that.
My take:
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CNN let down the country with their awful debate format. The no-fact-checking ended up making Trump's endless lies sound plausible.
Two things can be true: This was a total disaster from a journalistic point of view, and Biden blew a big opportunity.
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Unlike many others On Here, I don't think there's a way for Biden to bow out without it leading to extreme risks of a very different kind. We need more of an acknowledgment from the replace-Biden camp that this is not a remotely easy dilemma.
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His approval rating is below 40 percent.
He’s behind in every key swing state poll.
The #1 concern about his leadership is his age.
He just glaringly reinforced this concern in the single greatest opportunity he had to change the trajectory of the race.
Ergo, he can’t win.
I could cite all of the other races at this juncture and point to the infinitesimal chances he has of winning at this juncture, but there’s no point for two other reasons:
2) this isn’t a “other candidates bounced back from a poor performance” situation.
This wasn’t just an abysmal performance. You cannot undo the physical incapacity he demonstrated in the performance.
There’s no question he can do the job. There’s also no question he cannot demonstrate that.
