Maybe just wishful thinking but news like that makes me think it's more likely he's standing down and they're in the process of managing that as a family.
Maybe wishful thinking, but when the NYT goes out this hard... I mean, somethings got to be happening right? Right?
It's not quite 1968 in terms of the problems surrounding that election and the turbulence but Johnson knew he couldn't beat RFK and so stepped down (Vietnam and RFK simply being too much for him to continue).
That something could be little more than a few editors wanting Biden to move on, which would be consistent with other sentiment across the Dem ecosystem from David Axelrod to James Carville to Thomas Friedman and beyond. In fact, the only ones still battling to keep Biden as the nominee are people with something to lose if he's replaced.
That’s a nothing burger. Instead of “I’ll say that again” it came “say that again”.
Give it to Kamala 'till the end of the season.
He has form for this. Last time, it was an instruction to "pause"
it's perfect, right
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If a mortuary cosmetologist presented you with that thing, you'd sue them for desecration of a corpse.
15 time zones and up through a 11 circles of hell; every inch of his journey etched upon his countenance.
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Kind of disappointed with him more than the others, just given how much younger he is than, say, the Clintons. He didn't have to support him after the debate, could have said nothing. Really need people like him to step up at this moment in time.
Or maybe he sees the writing on the wall and wants to hint at Biden needing to step aside for the good of the party, and more critically - the country. Its not like he's directly told him to do one and retire into the sunset with immediate effect.
It's possible, but not ideal. I might be wrong, but I think there are even some limitations to what funds would be available to the new candidate - I'm not sure they can use whatever Biden's campaign has raised so far. And then there is the question of building national name recognition in four months, which isn't easy.
Exactly. It is disturbing how normalized Trump has become.
No one is saying that. That's why everyone is nervous, because he most definitely CAN win.
And Biden is the Democratic nominee, and nothing anyone does can possibly change that. He won the primary election, didn’t he? Yet, for almost a week now, lots of calls on him to step down.
I'm not sure who or what you are arguing against here. No one wants Trump to win. Biden is better than Trump, but Biden will most likely lose. We all want a younger and better candidate than Biden, but it is difficult to replace Biden if he doesn't step down by his own volition. What's your point?
That the only thing that can be changed is biden.
At this point I think he should just keep quiet. Its not like he's on an Easyjet flight back from Spain, next to a load of pissed up tourists shouting loudly at one another. I get that travelling can be tiring, but this is completely damning. If he has to go anywhere he needs a few days rest afterwards, doesn't sound viable to me.
It is not a double standard. It is a different judgment. Biden is judged to have integrity, so you can ask him to quit for the good of the country. Trump is judged to have none, so you don't.
No one is calling for it because he controls the Republican party and its core set of voters and anyone who strays from that reality is ostracized and exiled. Its a cult of personality party at this point until Trump leaves the political stage.
I’m sorry, but that’s the double standard right there. Treating him differently than others.
Dems can't do anything about the fact that the GOP is a cult.
Yes, its a double standard to most. Just as it is a double standard to Trump's gaslit MAGA followers that he is the only one being prosecuted, and not Biden as well. When you can create an alternate reality among Republican voters, the concept hypocrisy means nothing.
You keep talking about the cult. They won’t abandon their leader.
You don't think Trump has been covered extensively by the media for the past 8 years ? Are you familiar with the Wapo list of 30k plus lies he's told or all the coverage about every legal case he's been up against ?
He has been, but now it seems that Trump’s legal troubles, January 6, etc. don’t matter. Only Biden’s age.
Possibly because the media cycle only covers things in the present, and that means Biden's debate performance which even most Dems concede was calamitous. Trump's trials are far in the distance at this point, and some of them may not even happen if he wins. The bigger priority in terms of coverage right now, is quite correctly, who will replace Biden if/when he drops out.
I understand the part about the news cycle.
That's because Republicans generally don't care what the mainstream media (the liberal media to them) have to say about anything. And Fox, Newsmax, and the rest of the right wing media are obviously not going to call for Trump to drop out because he's their meal ticket to political influence.
