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Not to speak to what Biden needs to do, but this sub is seriously burying their heads in the sand with Trump’s chances to win.
Downvoting all negative polling, hand-waving away Biden's approval, upvoting weird clickbaity re-affirming Newsweek titles on a daily basis.
People seem to have forgotten, but these were the circumstances in 2020: Trump was royally botching the worst public health crisis in a century. Hundreds of thousands of people were dying.
There were lockdowns, people were scared, the economy was tanking. Trump himself got COVID in October, of all months. He got it from a super spreader event for the Supreme Court Justice he just jammed through hypocritical to the Justice Republicans blocked 4 years prior.
Also, Biden was in an extremely strong position and leading Trump by 7-10 points for an entire year leading up to the election. Trump STILL almost won, only losing by a few thousand votes in a handful of states.
4 years later, you don’t have to tell me Trump’s objectively worse, a threat to democracy, a criminal, etc.. But that doesn’t match America’s electorate, sadly. His favorability has gone up since 2021. His legal woes haven’t moved the needle whatsoever. Biden’s approval has plummeted and he's almost TEN points lower than he was 4 years ago - even before post-debate data.
We should at least keep that as a baseline fact instead of remaining in denial, which the latter seems to be strangely popular here.
Forget the debate. He’s an older man, not exactly gonna be the quickest on timed questions like a game show… he was unfortunately prepared for specific talking points, instead of just told to let loose off the cuff. His record speaks for itself. Besides we’re voting for the administration, not just him. Comparatively, Trump spat out lies a mile a minute that were never fact checked or challenged. “Black” jobs, migrants, somehow getting Putin to pull out of Ukraine -before- he’s in office. These are all things that needed to be addressed. Regardless, if Biden was a literal corpse glued to the podium, he’d get my vote before a multiple felon, adulterer, rapist, liar, traitor who claims he’s going to become a dictator (just for one day, you can trust me right?).
Bullshit.
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It took a few reads to realize you’re being sarcastic. The other thing people don’t seem to realize is that Trump generates clicks and sells papers. CNN is now owned by one of his pals. Major outlets are praying for a Trump win (at least the CEOs do so they can cash out before all media becomes state run). Forget the debates, just look at track records.