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It should be pushed aside. It is a distraction. Biden was not any different before the debate. Tim Miller counted only 20 bad days in the last 3.5 years before the debate. The debate makes 21. Pfft.

People are coalescing around Harris to replace Biden. That's amounts to the same thing as leaving Biden at the top. If he should be unable to complete his second term, Harris will step in anyway. Preemptively replacing Biden is a bad look, and there are plenty of good reasons to conclude that even if Biden's chances are diminished, his odds are still better than anyone else's.

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Riddle me this: Why did Biden give up three minutes of Super Bowl time for an unscripted interview? The inner circle at the White House has known about Biden's infirmaries for a long time. It is shameful that they allowed him to run again in his condition. You talk about a bad look, watch the debate again if you have the stomach for it.

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One event does not a conclusion make. You have committed the fallacy of omitting the denominator, in this case of all the other unscripted events he has participated in. Just post debate he participated in around fifteen events, most unscripted, and the press mentioned only two of the events: The NC rally and the ABC interview (Make that three. I saw some coverage of his on-air call to Morning Joe). Notably missing is his appearance at Waffle HOuse the same night as the debate where he was just fine, almost as if the cold medicine had worn off.

The main point is preemptively replacing Biden with Harris is functionally the same as avoiding all this emotional overreaction, and if it should turn out that Biden is unable to complete his second term, then you get Harris anyway.

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