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The 81-year-old president said he's bowing out after remaining defiant for weeks in the face of calls to withdraw from the 2024 race.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Biden was shaky at best. I doubt there was a real chance he would have survived four more years of the most stressful job in the world (for an honest person, trump of course doesn’t work like that).

I think he did the right thing, and his administration was very successful and more progressive than I think most of us expected. I’d vote for him again, but I don’t think it was best for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can't comment on him enduring four more years of leading the nation, but he would have won the votes. He was never my top option in the past. But at this point, the democratic party is playing with fire. Let's just hope it pays off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought leaving him in was playing with fire.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nope. Because now the party is in real disarray. Mark my words: if Trump wins, it will be because of what happened today. And the democrats are to blame. Yes, yes, Russia, China, Iran, all doing an excellent disinformation campaign, yes, yes, the GOP is compromised, etc. But ultimately, the democrats opened the floodgates of opportunity for Trump to win "because the gates looked too rusty and we need to replace them."

Biden was fine. And I didn't even like Biden. I would have preferred Sanders over him or Clinton. But we know what the elite dems did to him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Biden was far better of a President than I thought he'd be. But the way our dumb media works, and the way our elections are done, there is almost no way he was going to win after that debate performance. Then pile on the performances after that.

Trump and lie, lie, lie and openly state he's going to be a dictator out for personal vendettas and the "liberal media" is going to maybe mention that, then move on to talking about how frail and senile Biden is. Even if he's only lost a bit of his edge.

Let's have a primary of sorts, and pick the candidate that can most likely WIN.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They were going to lose if he stayed in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I can’t comment on him enduring four more years of leading the natio

That is exactly what this is about, not that he hasn't done the job until now.