sorry but this is just wrong. yes, there’s a bad faith media feeding frenzy. but *fifty million* people watched Biden sputter his way through that debate. it is not a creation of the media, it is a real problem.
I don’t like to embrace doomerism but I’m pretty sure the moment we took on this narrative as a true “concern” Biden needed to disprove, especially party leadership, we were fucked.
The polls in the two days following the debate indicated that by a 2:1 margin voters said Trump won. 25% of Democrats wanted another nominee.
But the number of those who were for Biden before, still said they'd vote for him. The media onslaught (not just NYT opeds) has done more damage.
