To think Joe Biden needs to be replaced as a candidate

I'm sorry bit if they can't do better than Biden the party should give up and fold.

I liked Pete Buttikrieg (Sp?) last election but he was gay, which is unlikely to play well with middle America. They are so not going to go for a male partner to the POTUS. Maybe in the big cities, but definitely not in the areas in between.

@CanadianJohn . I agree. Not younger than 35 and no older than 60, but allowing an incumbent a second term. So no President could take office for a second term at over 65. I think it is important that Presidential candidates are fit and healthy enough to serve two terms. It is an immensely demanding office, intellectually and also in needing to visit natural disasters; the travel schedule is a nightmare.

Yep. He was nothing like this during eight years as Obama’s VP. Had his share of boneheaded remarks, but they were coherent.

My nine-year-old has a stutter. She’s more coherent half-asleep than Biden is on a national stage.

Remember back when Dick Cheney was Vice President and he accidentally shot his friend? Kamala Harris is polling lower among Americans than he did right after the shooting.

From this site, I get the impression that a lot of people in the UK don’t grasp how unpopular Kamala Harris is among - among everybody, really. She dropped out of the Democratic primary in 2016 because she had so few votes and her campaign was running out of money. The left doesn’t approve of many things she did as a prosecutor. The right isn’t happy with her because Biden flat-out said that he wanted a black woman VP long before he picked her. She was picked to be the best black woman for the job, not the best all-around candidate for the job. And she has a history of saying things weirdly or awkwardly and leaving people cringing.

The debate was horrendous. I was totally rooting for Biden and am gutted for him. Definitely needs replacing.

One of my friends said that she thought he was medicated up to the eyeballs during the debate. She doesn’t have a medical background so has no idea what with, but she thought his movements and facial expressions were glazed and wooden.

I did think he looked glazed. Trump was more animated and faked tanned to the nines, of course. 😂

Oh come on, a stutter has nothing to do with how he stares vacantly into the crowd and seems to completely loose his train of thought. His cognitive ability is clearly in decline and it is just cruel and sad that this is happening so publicly. He would not be considered for a senior position in any organisation let alone the leader of the free world.

😅😅😅😅 he's got not so early dementia which is not that big a deal or unusual for a man of his age. But men of his age with early dementia retire and play golf or other activities not try and get elected to lead the USA.
The bar is so low that people think it is fine for someone who literally can not complete a sentence coherently should be leader of the USA. You don't need to think it's a conspiracy or an agenda by right wing activists. Just watch the debate. He should be retired and enjoying his hobbies.

He has a stutter, ffs. Noting more suspect than that!

How do you get to be a grown up and not realise that this post was questioning where there was a power circle that made decisions around the POTUS and it was OK to have a senile old man as the President because the decisions are made by people with some mental capacity.
That's what was being asked. Not that the President is a figure head with no powers. It a reasonable question as Biden wouldn't have a clue as to some of the decisions and policies that have been Implemented in his name. There must be someone who knows what's going on, hopefully.

Biden only won in 2020 because the pandemic happened and Trump's response was even worse than ours. Plus even in 2016 Hilary won the popular vote.

Before March 2020 Trump looked oddsvon for a second term. He'll win now if the Dems don't put someone in who can finish a sentence.

I agree with you both, and others, on this. The office seems to get into people’s heads. Not in a good way

He's quite old now.

I agree, @CoffeeCantata , if he runs, we’re genuinely risking another Trump presidency.

If Joe Biden doesn't make way for a better candidate, he'll be judged harshly by history, I think.

Another Trump administration would be disastrous for the world. He has a totally isolationist stance and will effectively give Putin the green light to overrun more former Eastern Bloc countries. Trump won't care about Europe.

Parties always get a boost when they replace a leader and in every other way it seems to make sense for the Democrats.

I've found Biden to be a damp squib in so many ways. I'm afraid I think his only virtue is that he's not Trump, but it's time to go, Joe, for the sake of your party and your country, and the writing's on the wall.

@poetryandwine I really hope you’re wrong, I think he’d make an unholy mess. But judging by yesterday’s rally, it looks as if Biden is determined to run.

@GasPanic VP Harris is very influential with Black voters and somewhat influential with female voters. These are two cohorts that traditionally lean Democratic and that the Dems desperately need to keep

CA is the 5th largest economy in the world, larger than the UK. Agreed it has problems but (a) some are either many decades old and very complex, such as the water rights kerfuffle, or functions of nature, such as its vulnerability to forest fires (worse with climate change) and earthquakes and (b) CA has been enduring boom and bust for about a century now. It doesn’t really correlate with a particular style of leadership.

Overall growth is impressive. The state has gained two spots in the world economy this century. Also on the whole CA has done an admirable job with immigrants, regular and irregular - welcoming them, getting the best from them, incorporating their cultures, etc. The contrast with TX in particular is profound and welcome.

I still agree with @mathanxiety ’s point that a single state ticket is probably a mistake. But Gavin Newsom? A different story

Democrat run cities in America are generally the pits.

Only if you completely ignore the massive problems in California!

This is the dems big problem...they have been using this line too often and can't hide the truth of a live debate.
He was having these issues 4 years ago.

So the fact that someone faked porn photos of Joe Biden (which I didn’t know existed) to discredit the real porn/drugs/gun photos of Hunter Biden (which I’ve seen) when I never even mentioned porn, means I need to read more carefully. Ok dude.

As I said, it was the ones claimed to be from the laptop which were porn photos of Joe Biden. Those were faked. The ones of Hunter, otoh, are allegedly real.
Try reading more carefully.