Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

Yes, Presidential nominees should be judged on their ability to do the job, but let's be honest here, the Yanks are pretty thick when it comes to politics and TV appearances have been guiding people's choices since Kennedy.

When it comes to these two, neither candidate would be anywhere near my own particular political views and the Israeli albatross around Biden's neck has done a lot to damage him over the last 9 months. But in a two horse race, you have to opt for one of them and Biden, despite his numerous shortcomings, is still the most sensible choice over Trump…

…for what should be obvious reasons to anyone who's been paying attention to US politics for the past 8 years.

Biden should be hammering Trump, he has so much material to sling at him, but obviously he has reached the point in his life where he needs to hang up his boots and retire. He is not up to it. Embarrassingly so.

If Biden remains in the race, Trump will get in by default.

Exactly. Biden has been struggling for a few years now. His mental faculties are not where they should be. He's making it easy for the other lunatic.

They are frequently wrong.

This came up 8 years ago, 4 years ago and a few weeks ago.

Biden may or may not win but this annoying argument keeps coming up no matter how often they are wrong. It isn't sport, serious betters don't use bookies for elections they use stocks. Bookies have been wrong again and again about elections because they are not trying to be right and yet somehow people maintain a level of faith in the bookies to put the most religious to shame.

The damage will be accessed over the coming week or so.

If the polls dip for democrats running down ballot the mood music will change.

If he was not running again. The question would be who is currently in charge as he is obviously not capable now of living unassisted. Nevermind the most powerful job on earth.

I think he came across as old and weak.

Trump will beat him unfortunately now.

Well it could, if there's another Democrat out there with better chance of winning the Presidential election.

If Harris becomes President now, effectively she'd by default also be the candidate for the election.

I can't see a situation where Harris is President and then isn't the candidate.

I don't know the other candidates that well to comment in detail. I think if there was an obvious keen quality candidate Biden might not have run this time out. Seems like the other candidates that are mentioned in the media either have flaws or maybe reluctant to put themselves through the Presidential goldfish bowl just yet. But this might force their hand.

Up until the debate I thought they were better off sticking with Biden as a known quantity versus Trump. Like an aging quarterback, he might still get it done.

Normally conventions are boring, pre-ordained affairs. If Biden does step aside before the Democratic convention, and free up the delegates - it could make for dramatic TV and news coverage, and give whoever is selected a huge launch pad. Maybe more so than the long drawn out primaries.

I saw him at close up when he was last in Dundalk and it was evident that he was long past knowing what was going on. So did the bookies. It is like a toss-up between Delaney's Donkey and a one-legged Bucking Bronco. Neither are fit for purpose. In this instance Trump will win easily and the bookies will again be right.

Biden should hand over the ropes to Harris and be done with it. Its the only way of stopping Trump getting in.

There is nothing more dangerous than electing an idiot who can't articulate any thoughts more sophisticated than a 5 year old child as president.

I can't think of any occasion when Trump showed any intelligence or statesmanship with any speech he made.

At Least Biden had some good statesman like moments in the last 4 years.

If Biden steps aside for the good of the country, people will then start to focus on Trump's own age. Focus will turn to Trump's own gaffes.

He's also not a young man. He seems OK cognitively, but we're talking about a term of 2025-2029 which brings him also well into his 80s. They won't want two successive Presidents to vacate due to, basically, old age.

I can see CFTrump withdrawing though; if he's well ahead in polls, why debate? It's been his M.O. all along.