• a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Don’t disagree, but also curious why the same pundits aren’t ripping apart Trump’s senility? 30 seconds of watching a Daily Show weekly roundup will provide COUNTLESS examples of Trump rambling endlessly and forgetting what he was even talking about. Just because it wasn’t as stark at the debate doesn’t’ mean it isn’t happening. I’d also imagine that Trump was probably coked out of his mind at the debate after he spent weeks leading up to it claiming Biden would be on drugs. He has a well-documented history of projecting whatever he’s doing wrong on his opposition.

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      4 months ago

      Because Trump’s senility doesn’t matter; Republicans are going to vote for him regardless

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      4 months ago

      It’s because we’re talking about two entirely different groups of people.

      More and more Democrats are calling for Biden to withdraw because they don’t believe he can beat Trump.

      Republicans are happy to stick with Trump because they’re fairly sure he can trounce Biden.

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      4 months ago

      Don’t disagree, but also curious why the same pundits aren’t ripping apart Trump’s senility

      Republicans are held to a lower standard.

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      4 months ago

      Those articles are out there.

      The key differences are Trump is the popular candidate. He is who the GOP electorate wants and who the GOP runs on.

      Biden is not a popular candidate and not who the Democratic party electorate necessarily wants: instead his whole candidacy and presidency has solely been not being Trump. This condition is fully transferrable to any candidate with support of the party.

      So the ramifications and implications are wildly different.

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        4 months ago

        Biden is not a popular candidate and not who the Democratic party electorate necessarily wants: instead his whole candidacy and presidency has solely been not being Trump. This condition is fully transferrable to any candidate with support of the party.

        Biden may not be a popular candidate on Lemmy, but he absolutely was prior to that debate showing with the general public. It turns out moderates and independents make up a large portion of the voting block and they aren’t all drooling at the prospects of Bernie Sanders. They WANT a boring president.

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          4 months ago

          They want a competent president. Biden has been showing these signs for quite some time to a lot of resistance towards anyone willing to acknowledge it. But now? Shit I’ve seen hard leftists express willingness to support Kamala Harris so I think people are mostly on board for not-Biden in general.

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          4 months ago

          he absolutely was prior to that debate showing with the general public

          Only 25% of Democrats wanted him to run, he is not a popular candidate

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      4 months ago

      My guess is - people have heard so many articles about Trump fucking up that they don’t get clicks any more. Tearing into Biden is much more lucrative, plus people then argue about it in comments (just look around here) further driving engagement.