Joe Biden has been the greatest president since Lyndon Johnson, who passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Clean Air Act, and created Medicare. And now Joe Biden, just like Johnson before him, needs to voluntarily give up his re-election campaign.
Biden is too old to continue as the Democratic Party’s nominee.
The greatest task of the nominee today is to defeat Donald Trump and Biden is clearly not up to that task. Given the opportunity and necessity of exposing Trump in Thursday night’s debate, Biden whiffed. All it would have taken to defeat Trump in that debate was to be cognitively present and articulate but Biden couldn’t clear that bar. Trump’s candidacy was strengthened by the debate and that’s intolerable.
Up until now, I’ve been in favor of ignoring criticisms about Biden’s age and rallying behind him but no longer. It’s time for Democrats to clearly tell Biden to give up his candidacy in favor of a younger leader.
Come on, Joe. Do it for the country. And do it now.
— John Fay, Santa Cruz
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