Kind of odd this is a Sunday press release, doesn't really seem to match the moment.
One of the all time FAFO moments of US political history. Biden demanded the debates, set the ground rules, and lit himself on fire on that stage. I'm not sure how it will shake out. Kamala's pretty awful with terrible approval numbers but she's also not 80+ years old and people generally hate Trump. Just getting free of the Biden tailspin and breaking free of the Dem circular firing squad could be enough to squeak by, but if she crashes and burns like her 2020 campaign that wouldn't shock me either.
But "one bad debate" is kind of like people saying Joe just has a stutter; it's alternate reality territory. His decline has been obvious over the years and his aging has been a simmering concern with voters for years. There's a reason during the 2020 campaign he kept hinting he'd be a one-term candidate to beat Trump and bridge to the next generation. What happened at that debate was Biden proving all those concerns valid in a spectacular weigh in an incredibly high profile moment. The media actually had to cover it instead of just ignoring it or dismissing it. For example, weeks before the debate Obama leading a confused looking Biden off the stage of an event was called a cheap fake and a right-wing smear, then after the debate the dam broke and all the private concerns could be reported on including how Obama himself was surprised at how far Biden had degraded. On and on. The media did not invent the problem, they just finally started covering it in depth and Trump went radio silent for a couple weeks so there was no lifeline coming from him to change the story.
Biden needed to be robust and prove himself, instead his campaign organized r
adio interviews with pre-selected questions. He was not up to it and if he couldn't sell his own party, how was he going to sell the American people?
