538's Nate Silver urges Biden: "Reassure voters or ‘stand down’"
By HatetheSwamp February 20, 2024 7:43 am Category: Politics (0.0 from 0 votes)
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Election handicapper Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, on Monday called on President Biden to reassure voters he is capable of running a campaign.
Otherwise, Silver said, Biden should step aside ahead of the August nominating convention and let the party select a new candidate.
“Personally, I crossed the rubicon in November, concluding that Biden should stand down if he wasn’t going to be able to run a normal reelection campaign — meaning, things like conduct a Super Bowl interview,” Silver wrote. “Yes, it’s a huge risk and, yes, Biden can still win. But he’s losing now and there’s no plan to fix the problems other than hoping that the polls are wrong or that voters look at the race differently when they have more time to focus on it.”
Silver’s piece comes after New York Times columnist and podcaster Ezra Klein argued Democrats should convince the president not to run again and then pick a new candidate at the party convention in August — a practice, Klein noted, that used to be far more common in presidential elections.
Gang,
Silver is a Dem but he's more need than Dem and he'll continue to offer reasonably objective analysis.
The word pb's hearing is that Biden team is pinning their hopes on the State of the Union speech on March 7.
Here's pb's prediction:
The Doddering Old Fool's handlers will get him rested up and juiced up with the cocktail of supplements and drugs they feed him.
He'll do okay in the speech.
AND, Curt will enter a post the moment the speech is over proclaiming that Winston Churchill never spoke so inspirationally, not once,... never.
And that, beginning with his first public appearance after the speech, Joe will sputter and stammer as badly as ever.
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Election handicapper Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, on Monday called on President Biden to reassure voters he is capable of running a campaign.
