The last of those has dominated my thinking since the disastrous CNN debate in June. Imagine that Biden's staffers had gently shepherded him over the line, coaching him through interviews and propping him up through public events. Imagine that Biden had somehow won the election despite the evidence of the polls-and then, disaster.
How can you ask the voters to trust you when you don't trust them enough to tell them the truth? My colleague Mark Leibovich first wrote in 2022 that Joe Biden should not run again. To many of us watching from outside America, this seemed like an entirely reasonable argument.
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