Noah: I get the calculation that he didn’t want to be a lame duck on day 1, but if he didn’t make a promise not to run for another term… then he didn’t make a promise not to run for another term

Do people not remember this?

Where and when did Biden promise to serve only one term?

Okay, but that article was about him *considering* making the pledge, and then he never made that pledge

The whole story was “prominent Biden advisers” saying in effect “we’re making this pledge but we can’t come out and make this pledge because of the political costs.”

Yea, I read the article at the time. I still wanted him to make a pledge, because a whisper-promise from anonymous senior advisers means jack shit.

I get the calculation that he didn’t want to be a lame duck on day 1, but if he didn’t make a promise not to run for another term… then he didn’t make a promise not to run for another term

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