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I go to bed at like 8:30, but I should not be president
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Also, whew, lemme tell you, one way to get blocked on here is to flood my mentions with "OH SO YOU HATE BIDEN/WANT TRUMP/YOU'RE TRYING TO DESTROY THE REPUBLIC" and so on because I posted a link to an article.
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Look, idk what the right path forward is for that campaign and neither does anyone else. Screaming at strangers about it on the internet probably doesn't help.
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But it's extra wild when the likely pivot would just be to swap in Harris, who would continue to have the exact same policies as Biden but without the burden of being a million years old.
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Go make phone calls for the Biden campaign instead of yelling at internet strangers. It's more productive.
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But here's the thing, and I'll say it as someone who monitors and analyzes media: the bad media coverage isn't going to let up. It's going to drive his poll numbers down and it's going to be relentless. There's blood in the water, and maybe it's not fair, but that's the reality right now.
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The only way it *might* stop is if he does something that really demonstrates that he's got some crazy-youthful energy/stamina/whatever that he maybe doesn't actually have. He should probably be on every TV show possible right now, doing every interview he can, just relentlessly in our faces.
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Showing up in an ABC interview tomorrow night isn't going to fix it. He can come off absolutely perfect and it's not going to turn the tide of the current media narrative. It just won't. And again, this might not be fair to him, to his supporters, or to the country.
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But the narrative is the narrative, and it's hard to overcome. If he dropped out of the race, it would shift to a different story. If he stays in, which he says he's going to, we need to buckle up for four months of non-stop, wall-to-wall *this*, fair or not.
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If he drops out of the race the feeding frenzy will have only just begun
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Oh, I know. It'll pivot to a different negative narrative. I know.
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I think the same one metastasizes. If he had to drop out, now he needs to resign, etc. Candidate Harris: when did you know the president had dementia and what did you do about it? Which EOs did he sign while incapacitated? What are doing here?
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This is a really good point. They will just keep beating that horse to death, in addition to their new narratives about party chaos around changing the horse midstream.
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dems only have to get their nonexistent no-process-to-determine candidate on the ballot in 50 states in the next 124 days, the majority of which are goper-controlled. Any thoughts about what gopers will do when it’s time to put a brand new democratic candidate on their presidential election ballots?