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Politics, 2024 Election
The Biden Vigil
Come on, tell us what Democrat will defeat Trump
Yesterday, I started a piece titled, “Hey Joe, Where You Going With That Election in Your Hand?” I wrote the not-so-cleaver title based on a Jimi Hendrix tune. I did not finish it when I doubted my conclusion — that Biden should quit the 2024 presidential race.
I’m not certain Biden is destroying the opportunity to beat Trump. And I’m not sure of the opposite.
President Biden is suffering the humiliation of a growing army of Congressional Democrats, donors, and celebrities calling on him to give up his bid for reelection. A smaller Democratic group is telling him, and the rest of us, the opposite. Those Democrats tell us that Biden has been a great president and is more than fit to serve another four years.
I choke hearing anyone tell me that Biden is not in decline as much as I do when I am told Trump was a great president ready for a second act. I even heard one pundit (I would use a different word) remind us that President Biden is incapable of delivering a 92-minute speech.
Was Trump’s Milwaukee acceptance speech proof of his fitness for office? If it was, I’m on the wrong planet. (And, by the way, I’m grateful that we will not hear anything that long again from…
