Sticking with Biden or running Harris would be *far* less risky than dedicating two of the next four months to Democrat infighting, followed by an unprecedented delegate voting process and dubious chances of even getting on the ballot. Knowing this shit is supposed to be these people's job
If you're so concerned about the stakes of this election you could just... spend the next four months writing about the stakes of this election. A constant drip of articles calling the Democratic nominee unfit is also not a great strategy for winning!
"They can't even pick a nominee who doesn't have dementia! His VP pick was so bad they skipped her and had en entire second primary. And we're supposed to trust these people to run the country?"
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I actually think people are getting a bit over their skis on freaking out over Biden! We're talking about one terrible debate performance, something that can be turned around with a few good TV appearances. And bowing out could hurt Dem polling more than it helps.
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I guess what I'm grappling with is, yes, the debate went poorly and everyone online who is well informed has an opinion. Meanwhile, no one I know actually watched it, they're low information voters, and their attention spans are about two seconds long. I know my personal experience is not reflective
of everyone, but I do also know that very online =/= average voter and we keep making that false assumption time and time again to our detriment. People are like, how could anyone in this country not know now what Trump is like! Well, lots of people! At best they read a headline or two, still.
I don't know myself what the right move is, but it seems worthwhile to consider that time compresses in memory. If he comes out swinging in an interview in a week or two, the only people who will actually remember the gap come election time are us in the perpetual echo chamber.
I mean the Trump campaign just run ads with the clip of Biden losing his train of thought and saying '.........look......we finally beat Medicare'
There will be plenty of sad/hilarious Biden supercuts just like there are many about Trump's bizarre/awful ramblings.
I have two married friends who are both mid/late 50s and raised Republican (same as me).
But neither of them is terminally online, and they're still backing Trump even after (waves hands) all of this because for every piece of evidence that he's crisis-level trash, there's a lack of uptake.
Ugh.
