Since last week’s “debate”, the New York Times has featured — every day — at least four concurrent front page headlines and stories about Joe Biden’s performance, his cognitive state, his age, and/or calls for his withdrawal from the campaign, including a call that he do so by its own editorial board. And lest we forget the NYT’s oft repeated self-references to Times/Siena polls.
The rest of us will have a better idea of how things may play out following the interviews and press conference(s) President Biden does in the near term. We can make a judgement ourselves. But whatever ends up happening is ultimately up to Joe Biden; not the NYT with their thumb-on-the-scale nor anyone else.
And for the record, Kamala Harris is the most logical choice to carry the campaign forward should President Biden decide to withdraw, for the following obvious reasons: she is the Vice President, is well-qualified, and can seamlessly continue with the Biden-Harris campaign chest already in place.
And while they would never say so, Republicans are scared shitless of her. Why do you think they have been deriding her and planting seeds of doubt about her since 2020? She would rip the Republican defense of Donald Trump’s criminality and amorality a new asshole and suddenly be the younger candidate by far.
For these and other reasons, I submitted the following comment to the New York Times today (several hours ago), which has yet to be posted.
I do not expect it will be.
“And what is the "public perception" of a convicted criminal and pathologically lying malignant narcissistic sociopath who has just been given the green light by three of his Supreme Court appointees to break the law with impunity, as long as it is "an official act"? We all know that Trump claims he declassified the documents he stole and hoarded at Mar-a-Lago simply by thinking about it.
What the hell, New York Times?!? Your daily...nay...hourly torrent of all Biden all the time negativity is having the exact same effect as "but her emails" fixation did in 2016. We all know how that turned out.
You want to do a public service? Then start dealing with the abyss of theocratic fascism the Republican Party is trying its damnedest to drag our nation into and start plastering that on your front page every day, because the radical right wing majority on the Supreme Court just tossed our drowning democracy an anvil.”
Come what may, here’s to a Democratic trifecta in November: President, Senate, and House.