Posted on 02/23/2024 3:10:21 PM PST by packagingguy
The notion that Biden is less mentally fit for the presidency than Trump is extremely dubious. The president has been involved in public policy for more than half a century and Biden has almost certainly forgotten more about geopolitics and the federal bureaucracy than Trump has ever learned. Age notwithstanding, Biden remains far more cognitively qualified for the presidency than his 77-year-old rival...
The president’s mental competence is similarly well established. Last year, then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told allies that he “found the president sharp and substantive in their conversations,” as Politico put it. This comports with the assessment of Democratic insiders. And nothing in Biden’s public performance contradicts these reports of his private behavior...
If Biden has cause to believe he’s still a contender, he also has grounds for doubting that his exit would increase the Democrats’ odds of victory...
Just as importantly, only Harris could become the presumptive nominee ahead of the party’s convention and sail through relatively smoothly in a vote of the delegates. If Biden stepped down and endorsed Harris — imploring his delegates to vote for her — then Democrats could all begin aligning behind the party nominee before late August.
It would not be tenable for Biden to endorse anyone else. Risky as it would be for convention delegates to pass over Harris through a formal, deliberative process, it would be even more incendiary for the president to snub her unilaterally.
What’s more, as Biden’s running mate, Harris would be able to make immediate use of the president’s copious campaign funds, which currently total $130 million. As MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell has noted, no other replacement candidate would have legal access to that cash — at least, not until it passed through the Democratic National Committee’s coffers.
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Even if Biden for some reason decides not to run, only Harris could legally use the campaign cash (that is until the Democrats need to use it to save democracy). So either we have Biden or Harris as the Presidential nominee.
"And who doesn't love a yellow school bus?"
The criminal DC establishment is behind everything and Biden is just a useful meat puppet who works for ice cream.
And everything else.
” The president has been involved in public policy for more than half a century and Biden has almost certainly forgotten more about geopolitics and the federal bureaucracy than Trump has ever learned. “
This isn’t the own that the author thinks.
I stopped after the first sentence.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen more gaslighting in a single article.
Eric Levitz needs to undergo public cognitive testing.
Laying the groundwork to justify the steal.
Don’t believe your own lying eyes, they deceive you.
It must be opposite day.
LOL!
What is the commie left supposed to say, that Biden is a degenerative, disgusting child molesting dementia riddled buffoon..they will defend him til their last dying breath because they have no choice
Biden has always been a dumba**. Crooked as can be, but a dumba**.
Biden has forgotten more about policy than Trump ever learned?
Yeah, I remember the young Joe Biden. My impression of him then was that he was a windbag and braggert and not too swift. He’s the one of whom Obama said, “never underestimate Joe Biden’s ability to f-— things up.”. The old Biden isn’t nearly that good.
“The notion that Biden is less mentally fit for the presidency than Trump is extremely dubious.”
THAT has to be the grandfather of “misinformation”.
MSN is such a clown show. Here, we see the results of a ‘kollege eddication’ in the liberal arts. These idiots want us to pay for their loans.
Biden already convinced us of how sharp his memory by going on national television and reminding us that El Sisi is President of Mexico. That sure persuaded me
“And nothing in Biden’s public performance contradicts these reports of his private behavior”
Really?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Biden+walks+off+stage
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Biden+hairy+legs
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Biden+using+note+cards
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Biden+unable+to+complete+a+sentence
Even in his best days why didn’t was not sharp and substantive. He’s always been someone’s trained monkey.
The media has always covered for him it doesn’t matter what he does.
who was it that said he was on the wrong side of every foreign policy for the last 50 years
“My impression of him then was that he was a windbag and braggert and not too swift.”
Same here.
I was amazed at his bloviating skills at the time.
Of course,unlike Trump as president, it was unlawful for him to have them as Sen. or VP. The only exculpatory argument here, unless it’s criminal, is that he was too stupid to know he couldn’t have them in the first place. Did Hur ever get around to asking him why, years ago he thought it was lawful for him to have them?
Stopped reading right there. Only a rabid Left Wing Progressive Dummycrat would write such nonsense.
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