Also Trump is a big loud reality show.
If you want to compete with the Trump reality show circus by using substance, you need to be able to communicate effectively. Otherwise many folks will be drawn back to the flash and spectacle.
Yes. Hillary would have been a great president, but if Biden ran in 2016, he probably would have won. There would have been no Trumpism. Imagine what a continuation of the Obama years would have been like.
That’s the situation we find ourselves in, though. The Republicans have set fire to our dugout and have snipers trained on the third baseman, and we’re clutching a copy of the rulebook and shouting “This is an egregious violation of the spirit of the game!”
As gaffes go calling Zelenskyy Putin is a pretty bad one. Doing it now with all of the scrutiny is even worse.
I probably am not explaining the Biden-still-president, after dropping out, problem properly.
Here’s what Trump said this week:
Most Trump voters, at least where I live, would tell you that don’t like that. But it works for our chief demagogue anyway because display of strength has subconscious appeal. If Harris is President, she’ll also display strength, although not that way. She could say she just ordered massive hurricane relief (or new sanctions against Putin). If she says Joe Biden just ordered it, that’s weaker – especially when the whole premise of her running would be that she’s a strong (but sane and decent) leader.
Actually, I think that one’s answerable. ‘He’s definitely up to governing. But combining campaigning and governing has made him realize that, while he still has the energy to deal with both his ordinary work and unexpected emergencies, it’s more work than it used to be to do so; and he’s concerned that in two or three years he may no longer be able to do so.’
Of course it is. But doing both at once has got to be harder than doing either one on its own.
Or out of living memory, either.
There was this thing called “The Civil war”? then the Whiskey rebellion? It has happened before- just quite some times ago.
So in a matter of a couple hours, Biden referred to Zelanskyy as President Putin and referred to Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump while defending his decision to pick her as a running mate.
I get he’s gaffe-prone, but none of this is calming any nerves about his ability to run a successful campaign against the Orangeanus.
She will be asked about his mental capability in that regard, but the answer acceptable for any but the Fox numbnuts and MAGAs is that he’s not incapable, but the country wants younger leadership and new voices.
I think it’s doubtful she would get any kind of New President honeymoon during the election cycle. And I think it would be a hard challenge to take over the presidential reins at the same time as taking on the top of the ticket. How she could overcome her particular polling challenges is something that needs a strategy, but not doing two major transitions at once.
I’d argue she would be better served having Joe to finish his term and let her work on her visibility and punching up excitement.
Note also that a bus driver has to have a commercial drivers’ license. In fact, my dad was a truck driver way back in the dark ages because my grandfather was one and he learned on the road. He drove a semi back in the 1950s and was a school bus driver in the 60s. But he actually only had a chauffeur’s license, not a truck driver’s license. So what would Politifact make of that?
I’ll grant you the Dems have squandered that last three years in establishing Harris as a leader. I don’t think having her jump in as President just so she can do things in her own name for a couple months is going to make much headway there. Better to have her on the campaign trail, in rallies and press conferences and debate than expect three months of Presidenting to get peope’s favorable attention.
She could be strong against Trump by highlighting how he treats women (as evidenced not just by his rape civil judgement, but the article by the former “The Apprentice” exec producer, his cheating on his pregnant wife with a porn star and carrying on an affair with the other lady, etc), and then stating that Trump obviously doesn’t trust women with their own bodies.
She could bust him on foreign affairs by showing him palling around with Erdogan, smiling with Kim Jung Il, and praising Putin for being strong.
And they could absolutely blow up the age angle, and meme the hell out of Trump’s memory blunders. Sore
Show “Sleepy Don” napping during his own trial.
That’ll be especially damning seeing as Kim Jong-Il died in 2011. Who wants a president that digs up corpses and smiles for photo ops with them? 
Neither of those involved the POTUS taking part in the rebellion.
However, going back to the post I was answering I see it just says “politicians”; and while it does mention Trump it doesn’t limit the behavior to politicians who are or are running for POTUS. So I was answering the wrong thing, and your objection is correct.
magats. That’s who. Just kidding … but seriously.
Dammit, whose the current guy?
Help, I’m having a Biden moment, and I can’t get up.
And yet this (via NPR):
Just One PollTM … but their poll goes directly counter to the narrative that “Polls show most Democratic voters want Biden to drop out!!!”
According to that page, 62% of Democrats believe Biden has the mental fitness to serve as President **. Though it’s being couched in the article as four-in-ten Democrats thinking Biden does not, in fact, possess the requisite mental fitness.
** I know … not exactly the same proposition, but close enough IMO.
He’s fine. Or he is not and Harris will become president if he had to resign one day(or god forbid, died).
Biden. Harris. Better than Trump? Yes. My vote. Done.
I’m not so sure. I’d vote for Biden in a heartbeat, and would answer a poll the same way. But I want him to drop out. And I think he has done and would do, an excellent job as President.
38% of your own party thinking you don’t have the mental fitness to be president is still a huge and concerning number even if a little better than other polling. That number should be basically zero. The fact that NPR still showing him winning the poll to be is more a sign that Trump is a very beatable candidate than Biden is good one.
No it doesn’t.
I like a majority of Democrats want Biden to drop out and I will still vote for him if he is the candidate. Not contradictory positions.
We are just believing the models that say that before the debate he needed a comeback, that odds were roughly one in four of a win. A strong Biden could be reasonably hoped to shake it up in the stretch and shake off the pre existing fears of his age and competency. We don’t see Biden now as being able to do that after that debate. It didn’t significantly worsen his poor position but it added cement to it. That is bad. Very bad.
You responded to a proposition I had not intended to make. My point was unrelated to voting. The lack of clarity was my mistake.
Let be more precise.
According to the latest NPR/Marist poll, 62% of Democrats believe Biden has the mental fitness to serve as President
That specific poll result directly counters:
The narrative that “Polls show most Democratic voters want Biden to drop out!!!”