Do you want to beat Trump? I'm sure the answer is yes. Is Biden the best candidate to do so? I'm not sure. Shouldn't we be sure? We've got a risk of losing to Trump with Biden. What about the alternatives? We don't know because there was no Dem primary, even though nearly 80% of registered Dems didn't want Biden to run for a second term.
Do you want to beat Trump? I'm sure the answer is yes. Is Biden the best candidate to do so? I'm not sure. Shouldn't we be sure? We've got a risk of losing to Trump with Biden. What about the alternatives? We don't know because there was no Dem primary, even though nearly 80% of registered Dems didn't want Biden to run for a second term.
And it's not "one bad night of optics". His press conference after the Hur report came out was very bad. His avoiding the Super Bowl interview was bad. His insistence that the economy is good to people hurting from inflation was bad. His weakness with Netenyahu is bad.
And performance considered by some as the worst of any candidate ever at a televised debate with 45 million people watching is not just optics.
Do you want to beat Trump? I'm sure the answer is yes. Is Biden the best candidate to do so? I'm not sure. Shouldn't we be sure? We've got a risk of losing to Trump with Biden. What about the alternatives? We don't know because there was no Dem primary, even though nearly 80% of registered Dems didn't want Biden to run for a second term.
And it's not "one bad night of optics". His press conference after the Hur report came out was very bad. His avoiding the Super Bowl interview was bad. His insistence that the economy is good to people hurting from inflation was bad. His weakness with Netenyahu is bad.
And performance considered by some as the worst of any candidate ever at a televised debate with 45 million people watching is not just optics.