Get behind what? The campaign has shown nothing but contempt for the feedback they've received since the debate. There's no plan, there's been nothing of substance that they've put forward for how they're going to counter the public's widespread perception of his inability to be President for four more years.
There is no plan, though. His polling today is bad. The plan was the debate. Now, it's… what?
So you despise him because he is old and thinks he has the mental faculty to run a country? Which by the way , he Is doing now.
I get that the nomination is ultimately in Biden's hands.
And if he remains the nominee without a plan for countering this perception, then he's going to lose even if everyone in the party stops talking about it and fully rallies to him
Here would be my one pushback even though I largely agree and also think Harris would surprise people.
I think that a lot of people including me were confident Biden was going to win. He had the money, organization, and Trump was convicted. Things were looking up.
I despise him for not having a succession plan to pass the torch to someone capable of running an effective campaign and beating the fascists.
Yeah we're trying to do something about it. Stop the car crash before it becomes impossible to not see it happen in real time. Saying "well get in line or we'll lose" is dismissive and if we do get in line, it doesn't matter. We will still lose. That's why we're losing our minds now before it's too late.
The focus can and will change in the coming weeks, just like every other election. Biden having a bad news cycle 4 months before the election isn't the nail in the coffin that some on here are making it out to be.
That was their plan this past spring, and that the debate would change stuff and then then convention and then… the problem is that he is incapable of doing the level of campaigning necessary to do what you're asking. I just don't believe he's up to doing what you think he can do. The campaign has not shown his ability to do the stuff he needs to do, like a town hall, in order to do literally anything to assuage voter concerns about his mental acuity. How is he attacking that concern? The problem is, he can't. That's the worry.
People pushed that message discipline attack in 2016 and it didn't get us anywhere.
It's only one news cycle if you believe he'll never have another moment like the debate, or to a lesser extent, the ABC interview. Are you confident about that?
He doesn't need to be perfect up to the election, he just needs more performances like from is SOTU and North Carolina speeches to give people confidence in him. He still capable of giving inspirational speeches.
The reports we get out of his administration are that no, he's not doing that
That wasn't the question. Are you confident that Biden won't have another moment like the debate or the ABC interview? Those are two of the few unstructured and live events we've had from him. What's going happen when he has to do another one, if his campaign lets him?
I don't think you're gonna be able to prove millions want him because they think he's the best, but you can look at polls of Democratic voters (~60% of whom want him to keep running), the fact he received over ten million votes in a primary that was already decided before it began, and the fact he's raised some of the most money of his entire campaign after the debate debacle.
of course it's possible there's another moment like that, every candidate has the potential to bomb something like that, but I also believe he's capable to have a strong performance at one of those things.
This is so much more than a bad news cycle, and it won't just pass with the next shiny thing.
The problem is you have to convince the electorate someone they think is too old for the job isn't too old for the job. That just isn't possible. That's not how people perceive the aging process.
You don't though, you just have to convince them that he's a better choice than Trump.
The number one concern people have with Biden is they literally don't think he can do the job. They might not love Trump but they also think he's not too old to do the basic functions. That's an extremely impossible hill to climb.
I also just feel like the debate put him in a hole he can never recover from. Even in his "good" moments, he still sounds like a old man. Those clips from 2020 posted in here highlight that. The damage is done and I truly don't see a way to fix it no matter how many speeches he gives or rallies he attends.
Yeah I don't think people realize this. Apathy was always Biden's biggest issue. I don't think him being super old is helping that issue!
I keep saying it but it 100% sucks that Trump has basically been the same verbally since 2016, as in he's talking in circles and going off on tangents. So since we've seen no "decline" the media is just fine with it.
Here's my current thinking
