K, I just got a couple of thoughts.
I have listened to pundits yap like baying dogs for two days now — and what I haven’t seen is a single prominent Democrat, Operative or Administration member who says that it’s “Lights Out” and time for Biden to pack it in. Nobody with clout or influence is saying that, and they won’t say it because there’s no reason to say it.
There hasn’t been a poll showing that Biden is behind, or can’t win.
I do watch Right-Wing news and they’ve been saying Biden should step down for months. Both Speaker Johnson and Chip Roy are already past Biden dropping out of the race, they want to use the 25th Amendment to remove him now. They’re so hell-bent they don’t even seem to realize that would make Kamala Harris President. Fox has been pushing Gavin Newsom as a replacement since last year when he debated Hannity. This idea is totally in their wheelhouse.
They think it’s hilarious that Jill Biden said Joe “answered every question” even though he did or at least he tried to, he just messed up a couple of answers. Trump completely ducked at least four questions. Everyone already knows Biden is old. This is why they were so surprised by his performance at the State of the Union and claimed he had taken some kind of “Magic Anti-Dementia Medicine” — when there is no such thing.
He had a cold, but also — his mic wasn’t adjusted properly. When I watched the replay they had fixed the problem and he was perfectly audible all of a sudden.
This is the Dean Scream in reverse people, it’s an audio trick. On the replay, his performance was fantastically better.
The lastest polls we had showed Biden ahead by 2 points after trailing Trump for the last several months. We just got the first news that he’s ahead, why would that suddenly reverse? No previous debate ever did that before. Obama lost his first debate to Romney and still won. Hillary won every debate against Trump, but lost. Bush lost every debate against Kerry, but still won. The worst I’ve heard so far is that some debates may create a 2-point swing — which would make them exactly even once again.
That is not a terrible outcome.
While all these backbencher Dems and Donors are bed-wetting about Biden's debate -- they have no actual proof or polls that "Biden can't Win." At this point, this is in their heads. I have a suspicion that Biden will actually improve in the polls because swing voters got a good gander at how FUckIng CRAzY Trump is.
Especially his repeatedly lie that Democrats abort children after they’re born. That. IS. Cray. Cray. He was already soft there and with Halley voters — Thursday night could totally crater him as much, or more, than it hurt Biden.
If Biden moves up in the polls - they will shut up. If he falls back and clearly can't recover, then -- and only then -- can we start talking alternates. And since all the money is currently tied to Biden/Harris - it would have to be Harris
Also, they’d have to show us a poll with any Alternative who has a shot at beating Trump because that hasn’t happened either. Biden is our nominee because he CAN beat Trump and he’s done it before.
/Rant