It was disastrous because it wasn’t disastrous enough.
Joe Biden’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos this evening was okay. He looked and sounded better than he did at the debate on June 27th, but that’s a mighty low bar. He did even better earlier in the day at a rally in Madison, though that was a teleprompter speech.
Here’s the problem. No lie. Not hyperbole. There’s nothing Biden said this evening that will win back a single voter he lost last week. His poll numbers won’t budge. But it was probably just good enough to make the task of those who want to replace him on the ticket that much harder. So, in that sense tonight’s performance couldn’t have been worse.
There is a story circulating that Sen. Mark Warner is working on a movement among senators to ask Biden to step down. (Biden said tonight that he’d only step down if God Almighty asked him to do so, but it’s Warner who’s doing the Lord’s work.) Let’s hope he continues his efforts, but tonight’s interview will neither help his cause nor improve Biden’s chances of beating Donald Trump.
Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos 
I’m disappointed in Mark Pocan, who was on the welcoming committee at Sherman Middle School on Friday. He’s in a very safe seat, so maybe he doesn’t care about the collateral damage that will accompany Biden’s impending landslide defeat. He’ll keep his job. Still, as our representative, I’d like him to show some cojones and politely ask Joe to face reality while there’s still time. He had his chance yesterday but instead he beamed for the cameras.
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Biden is delusional and selfish if he thinks he can win the election. His bunker mentality will not only end in his own defeat, but also destroy large swaths of down-ballot Democrats. Biden should ask himself why no Democrat running for office in the November election wants him anywhere near.
The solution is to ramp up the pressure on Biden by every means possible. Stop contributing to his campaign. Lean on Senate and House Democrats to march to the Whitehouse and inform the President that he has no path to victory. Do something every day to make your presence and opinion felt. The louder we get, the more difficult it will be for Biden and his idiotic advisers to ignore.
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