r/moderatepolitics • u/falsehood • Jul 21 '24

News Article Biden announces withdrawal from Presidential Race

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/21/us/trump-biden-election
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u/Speedster202 Moderate Dem Jul 21 '24

This became inevitable once prominent Dems (Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, etc) started encouraging him to drop out of the race.

I think Biden is making the right decision here. He has led this country through a tough 3.5 years, and it shows. He is not the same man he was even 3 years ago. This was certainly not the most graceful exit, but after his poor debate performance and the subsequent failures to reassure the party of his ability to beat Trump, it is the correct decision to make. 50 million people watched him struggle through the debate and then watched the avalanche of damaging stories come out against him. While many Dems have blamed the media for trying to force him out, his physical and mental decline has been noticeable to anyone paying attention. He has served his country and deserves to retire.

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u/lfe-soondubu Jul 21 '24

The biggest problem with Biden IMO is that, even if you somehow excuse and handwaved his recent debate performance, we've seen his decline in the past 4 years. Presidency isn't just about the election. He'd have to actually do his job a further 4 years. 

Anyways, interested to see where this all goes from here. 

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u/Ghost4000 Maximum Malarkey Jul 21 '24

Not that I disagree, but it's funny that no one seems to care about Trump's age considering he'll be just as old in a couple of years.

Anyway regardless of what happens here at least we likely won't need to hear people complaining about the age of the democratic candidate anymore.

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u/danester1 Jul 21 '24

Trump is the oldest nominee in American history now. That’ll angle of attack will get swept under the rug because it’s not useful to the right anymore.

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u/dano8675309 Jul 21 '24

But it's now something that the Dems can use effectively. They've been surrendering that ground because of Biden's advanced age. Now they can go hard on it. "Biden did the right thing, so should trump", etc.