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DJT will likely have a stronger running mate to enthuse the base.
Which shouldn't be difficult even for him.
He's probably got 25 million people who would stand in the rain to vote for him.
What you got?
@Jolly said in Biden announces:
@Catseye3 said in Biden announces:
@kluurs said in Biden announces:
DJT will likely have a stronger running mate to enthuse the base.
Which shouldn't be difficult even for him.
He's probably got 25 million people who would stand in the rain to vote for him.
What you got?
30 million who would stand in the rain to vote against him?
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Biden’s Quiet Re-election Strategy
We don't need no stinking president:
Strange as it may sound, the American government can function without a healthy president. The U.S. marched toward victory in World War II while Franklin Roosevelt was ailing in 1944 and 1945.
And then, even if he's mentally not up-to-snuff, it'll be OK.
Four decades later, the government managed its relationship with a teetering Soviet Union while Ronald Reagan’s mental capacities slipped. In each case, White House aides, Cabinet secretaries and military leaders performed well despite the lack of a fully engaged leader.
The horror! Voters might be worried about his age and then the UNTHINKABLE might happen.
f enough voters are turned off by the idea of a president who would turn 86 in office, Republicans might win full control of the federal government in 2024 — and Donald Trump might return to the White House.
I know that it may seem crass for Democrats to worry more about partisan politics than the mental acuity of the country’s most powerful person. But it’s not entirely irrational.
Ah, the gaffes are A-OK!
At 80, Biden can be an unsteady public performer. He occasionally uses the wrong word or fails to summon a name. Some of these habits are not new, to be sure. Biden has a stutter, which can make it seem as if he can’t remember words when in fact he is struggling to enunciate them. He has also long been known for saying things that he probably shouldn’t.
“Biden living up to his gaffe-prone reputation,” read a Times headline in 2008, when he was only 65. That same year, Slate magazine wrote, “He misspeaks so often, it’s hardly news — and hardly damaging.”
Hardly damaging. OK...
How to fix? Simple: Spend more time speaking!
Of course, there would be a simple way for Biden to address the concerns: He could spend more time speaking in public now and demonstrate his vigor. Instead, he and his aides have chosen the opposite approach.
The Quiet Strategy.
Is that where he whispers into the microphone?
News conferences and interviews are irrelevant
because they might expose his inability to think on his feet.Michael Shear, a White House correspondent for The Times, says that Biden’s aides are unapologetic about avoiding interviews and news conferences. “They see these traditions as outdated and unimportant,” Michael told me. “They say that traditional media don’t have clout, and they think that there are many other ways that he can better present himself.”
So, to reinforce the good job, the Times quotes....a Democratic Party official:
“The man has done a good job,” Elaine Kamarck, a political scientist and Democratic Party official recently said on The Run-Up, a Times politics podcast. “So everybody’s sort of saying, ‘Okay, yeah, he’s old. Big deal.’ There are advantages that come with age, as well as the downsides.”
And, in the very last paragraph, the Times finally, finally, gets around to asking the question:
If Biden is as energetic and effective as his aides insist, why does he spend so little time publicly engaging with other people?
