They're making it clear that every single event, no matter how mundane, will get framed as a referendum on Biden's age. Stumbles in a speech? Doesn't stumble in a speech? Spends the weekend with family? Age, age, age.
The Supreme Court rules that laws don’t apply to Donald Trump and the fundamental principle that nobody is above the law is dead? Gots to figure out a way to frame that primarily through Biden being old.
At this stage, it might be good for Biden to step aside for Harris just to give her a chance to shake this age narrative, but they are also showing that they will be equally hard on her for other things. You can't fight a feeding frenzy.
Yeah, I feel like the people who say it would be all positives are really not doing an honest assessment of the lay of the land here. I get the argument but the feeding frenzy we see now would just transfer, and Harris would face questions of why she backed/hid the infirm Biden for so long.
Don't forget the shit-ton of immediate "but she's seen as unlikeable" and "a lot of people find it hard to trust her" misognoir.
If Biden *died* she'd get a honeymoon. If he stepped down? Catastrophe.
Right, I think that last is important here. Him stepping down would almost certainly be framed as trying to give her a leg up in an election she couldn’t otherwise win.
I think if he died of natural causes that would lessen the honeymoon; it would feed the narrative that he was too sick to do the job and his people were hiding it
