7 thoughts on “President Biden Drops Out, Endorses Vice President Harris

  1. Drew Holden points out: “A month ago, saying there was anything wrong with Biden would get you “fact checked” by the press.“.

    The main thing to keep an eye out for is people who, a week ago, were telling you how amazing the emperor’s outfit is who, now, are explaining to you that Trump is too old and senile. There are likely to be legitimate criticisms of any given Democratic nominee (including the presumptive one)… but if the only defense is “Whatabout Trump?”, watch out and see whether they might start telling you about the quality of the nominee’s outfit.

    Don’t take their word for how good the outfit is. Look and see for yourself.

    That said, Trump has a hard ceiling. He just had the best political week that he’s ever going to have following the alleged assassination attempt and his favorability polls never hit 44% and his unfavorability polls never got as low as 51%.

    So he’s a weak candidate. But he’s a weak candidate with some strange energy and putting a weak candidate up against another weak candidate about whom the press is in denial is a good way to see that energy manifest.

    Look for defenses of the candidate that take the form “Candidate X is good because blah blah blah” and not “Why do you support Trump?”Report

    1. From the headlines, those articles appear to be about misleadingly edited or faked videos. I find it plausible that the media were using a weakman strategy—debunking fake or edited videos in order to avoid acknowledging better criticisms of Biden’s fitness for office—but calling out fake videos is, in and of itself, not something I would count among the media’s many sins.Report

      1. I believe that “edited or lacking context”, in this case, means “we’re showing you the 24 seconds that he looks lost instead of the hour-long video”.

        “Lacking context”. Probably needed an explainer.Report

    1. Seems to happen pretty often.

      Here’s one from Trump in 2019: https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-delegation-functions-authorities-sanctioning-use-civilians-defenseless-shields-act/

      Some searching shows 28 hits for “Memorandum on Delegation of Functions and Authorities” in the Trump archives and 31 in Biden’s… though not all the hits appear to necessarily be such memos themselves? Anyway… this hardly seems noteworthy but if you think it is, please explain why!Report

      1. I think that it’s noteworthy because we haven’t seen Biden since the 17th.

        He’s made a couple of noteworthy announcements without having been seen and this memorandum is one of them.

        Now, of course, his staff is saying that Biden is fine, just recovering, and we’ll see him soon. Today.

        And I am looking forward to seeing him today. (His staff, which has been forthright to this point, say that he is fine.)Report

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