• Pronell@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I think most of that drop was panic, but it became sustained because of the media narrative.

    Regardless, I’m on board with replacing him, especially if it drives voter engagement.

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      5 months ago

      It became sustained because he sustained it. If Biden wanted to show his mental acuity, he should have done some unscripted town halls. Instead, he fumbled a series of softball interviews. He knew he couldn’t do a town hall.

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        5 months ago

        You’re getting down voted, but you’re absolutely correct. That debate was a disaster, and he did not do much to reassure people afterwards that it was a fluke. The home stretch of the election would have simply been clips of Joe talking about how he beat Medicare.

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          And Trump had a few fantastic rebuttals that were handed to him on a silver platter. The “you beat it to death” and the “I’m don’t know what he said at the end, and I don’t think he does either.” Those were the moments you knew that Biden had lost it.