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In reply to the discussion: I have been reading different articles with Dr. Jill Biden's comments about President Biden online [View all]tman
(1,260 posts)There was pressure on Biden about his fitness to run before the debate, as reflected in his poor approval numbers for an incumbent going into an election and his head to head match-ups against trump.
..so Biden went into the debate (as the known underdog) with one key objective. Kill the narrative that he was 'mentally unfit' for the job. He failed disastrously, and his post debate clean-up interview may have been more damaging than the debate itself.
Up until he decided to run again, Biden could be seen as a good leader who brought the country back from the ruinous trump years. In his final year, he was a poor communicator who could obviously not stand the rigors of a presidential campaign. The debate was a preview of worse things to come, and most objective democratic pollsters believe he would've lost worse than Harris did.
Jake Tapper is a clown and we know media aren't fair, but the gaslighting from the Biden world should never be dismissed.