The Fig Economy: I mean the question is “what would you do if he stepped aside” and he answered that, and then pivoted to “but I don’t want him to.” Maybe entertaining the hypothetical is something, but I don’t know, feels like everyone is reaching a bit here, to me.

posting this since I distributed the original quote without context, which i have now deleted! sorry yall.

I think people are overreading that Jim Clyburn quote x.com/MSNBC/status...

You know I'm actually not sure people are overreading it, even with the full context

I mean the question is “what would you do if he stepped aside” and he answered that, and then pivoted to “but I don’t want him to.” Maybe entertaining the hypothetical is something, but I don’t know, feels like everyone is reaching a bit here, to me.

He had the option of resisting the hypothetical though. "That's not going to happen, I'm not even going to get into that, what a ridiculous question" Interpreted as politician-speak.... I dunno. Seems pretty far toward the "open to Biden dropping out" end

I guess since the question specified “if he decides that, and he has to decide that,” which colors how I read the response. They’re both flavors of “I support the decision he decides to make” as I’m reading it.

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