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Opinion: Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race?

www.theguardian.com Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnit

Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnit

According to one journalist’s tally, the New York Times has run 192 stories on the subject since the debate, including 50 editorials and 142 news stories. The Washington Post, which has also gone for saturation coverage, published a resignation speech they wrote for him. Not to be outdone, the New Yorker’s editor-in-chief declared that Biden not going away “would be an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment” and had a staff writer suggest that Democrats should use the never-before-deployed 25th amendment.

Although the Biden administration seems to have run extremely well for three and a half years, with a strong cabinet, few scandals and little turnover, a thriving economy and some major legislative accomplishments, the narrative the punditocracy has created suggest we should ignore this record and decide on the basis of the 90-minute debate and reference to newly surfaced swarms of anonymous sources that Biden is incompetent. Quite a lot of them have been running magical-realism fantasy-football scenarios in which it is fun and easy to swap in your favorite substitute candidate. The reality is that it is hard and quite likely to be a terrible mess. Nevertheless, this pretense is supposed to mean that telling a presidential candidate in mid-campaign to get lost is fine.

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  • Maybe it has something to do with recent memory of RBG desperately holding on to power that eventually screwed over the country?

    • That was a different situation? If Biden dies, Harris goes in. When RBG died, she left a hole for the republicans to fill.

      • I didn't say anything about dying. Both were/are being selfish and not putting the greater good ahead of their own personal ambitions.

        • I disagree, I think Biden only ran because he knew how the system worked and he had the best chance to win.

          • Trustworthy
          • Father figure
          • Loves his family
          • Has pulled us out of the pandemic nightmare
          • Started many policies that were actually for the people.
          • Been in politics a long time so he knows, and has proven, how to get around major obstacles.
          • The opposite of trump

          He wouldn't run if he knew he didn't have a chance. They're not stupid, they know how to read the public. I trust his people alone, he put in a great staff that's close to him. As I said elsewhere, even if he's not 100%, I'd take him and his staff 1000x over the POS trump. Any other option at this point would probably accidentally get trump in because of lack of knowledge of how the system works. Why do you think the trumpers are going so hard for Biden to step down? Because the know he's got the best chance at winning.

          Ask yourself, how did Trump do at the debate? What have you heard?

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