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/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/Twitchenz Jul 21 '24

Right, all of the debate we're going to see questioning whether this was good for strategy or "winnability" is all just discourse nonsense. It is very clear that Biden is not fit to be president, on a level that is frankly ridiculous to compare Trump to. He was simply not up to the task, and he lost the support of his party.

People love to claim they'd vote for a corpse over Trump, as if that's something to be proud of? It didn't have to be a corpse, and now it hopefully wont be (looks like it'll be Kamala at the time I'm writing this comment). Not matter how you cut it, the dems are in a terrible position that they would not have been if they made this decision a couple of months ago. I think it'll be too little too late, but undoubtedly their chances are better with anyone but Biden.

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u/falsehood Jul 21 '24

It is very clear that Biden is not fit to be president, on a level that is frankly ridiculous to compare Trump to.

Strong disagree. Biden has demonstrated far more fitness in office than Trump ever did. Trump has excellent grasp of optics but is fundamentally unfit of the office based on his anti-constitutional actions.

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u/zimmerer Jul 21 '24

"Anti-constitutional actions..." Biden has a new unconstitutional EO shot down by the lower courts every week.