A big part of this decision is happening right now at Camp David with his family, according to the article:

President Joe Biden is expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family at Camp David on Sunday, following a nationally televised debate Thursday that left many fellow Democrats worried about his ability to beat former President Donald trump in November, according to five people familiar with the matter.

Let’s face reality:

• Biden is TEN POINTS nationally below where he was at this time in 2020.
• Biden is losing in every single battleground state.
• Biden is losing a large chunk of black and Hispanic voters compared to his 2020 run.
• Biden’s aggregate approval ratings for Presidency are 37.7% with 56.7% disapproval.

… Biden asked for that debate because he was desperate to break the downward trend and reach these battleground swing-state voters. That backfired in the worst possible way.

The time is now, before the convention, and with enough time for an alternative candidate to be selected and ramp up campaigning. There are half a dozen candidates who fit the bill and have a semi-national profile, are YOUNGER, and have enough charisma and debate skills to beat Trump — almost by default by being a fresh face and younger

Anyone who says there isn’t enough time doesn’t understand just how much FREE viral media attention this would all receive. Every single person should be pushing for this to happen now. Because if Biden makes another gaffe like this in October or a medical emergency, then we are REALLY fucked.

It’s cute. But this is, of course, a given. And we don’t expect Hitler to do the right thing. We expect Biden to.

There’s something to be said for browsing TV. Having favorites channels and recalling between two different shows between commercials. Sucks if commercials were synced.

Like, some films I wouldn’t put on voluntarily but I’d watch if I caught it on you know? Also found a lot of new stuff I wouldn’t have otherwise seen.

Reading books. Not audiobooks. Not podcasts. Books.

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I’m as flabbergasted as anyone that polls are this close but here we are. Right-wing media controls the narrative and has had a stranglehold on this country. The polls don’t lie; they’re the canary in the coal mine sounding the alarm. So let’s face it: there is no datapoint you can point to that Biden where Biden isn’t doing significantly-worse compared to his 2020 campaign. I don’t give a fuck how you try to spin it, that’s not a good sign. Face hard truths of reality. The propaganda of the right is working with key voting groups whether we like it or not.

Neither cold nor stutter causes someone to jump from abortion to immigration mid-sentence and routinely lose their train of thought. How much experience do you have being around old people? My wife and I work in a hospital, but shit you should he able to relate with grandparents in their 80s. It could even be sundowning. I also don’t believe your 3rd point is doing you any favors. Biden campaigned on being a fighter to push the bully back. If he can’t hold his own as an 81-year-old, then that is very clearly a problem. Someone as experienced as Biden should easily be able to hold their own in a debate, being in politics as long as he has.

Look, I voted for Biden once and if it comes down to it I’d vote for a corpse over Trump. But as I’ve said over and over again: it’s not me you have to convince. The 2020 election was won by 40,000 votes across 3 states. And as I said, by every single metric, Biden is performing far worse than then. Not good. I hate to say it but I’d bet against Biden winning now.

Biden asked for the debate out of desperation to reach voters. They set most of the rules. Both campaigns signed off on the rules. It backfired tremendously, irreparably.

Yeah hubris probably isn’t the way to go when you’re losing in national polls 10 pts below where you were in 2020 at this time… And you’re losing in every battleground state… And you’re losing black and Hispanic voters… And the desperation play of asking for this debate to break the steady decline in polling utterly backfired.

Riddle me this: what if Biden’s condition worsens from here until November and it’s far past the convention to do anything? He’s not getting younger. The bad days, the sundowning will only get worse.

People are itching to vote for anyone but a senile geratric and a criminal geriatric. Give the people what they want.

My parents live with me.

Okay, well, one of them now. They divorced under our roof during covid while my wife was pregnant with our first child. Ah, fun times!

At some point they venture off to hobbies and try to pat themselves on the back with a bit of philanthropy.

Don the Con(vict/man). Ah shit I suck at scrabble…

Been waiting for this. As NK involvement increases with Russia, I was hoping SK involvement ramped up in favor of Ukraine.

Exactly!! That’s precisely my point! You tried to claim millions of people voted for Biden in the primaries when that doesn’t translate to battleground swing-state voters.

Biden is the guaranteed loss based on all available data we have, relative to his performance in 2020. Those battleground swing voters? Biden is ALREADY losing them. Besides, there’s a non-zero chance that Joe Biden could suffer an emergency health crisis after the convention… And then we’re REALLY fucked because at best we default to Harris who polls worse than everyone.

If you magically think that Newsom can ramp up a presidential campaign from scratch and beat Biden’s name recognition and win Wisconsin in only 6 months, you’re being insanely optimistic.

Yes, he absolutely can and I’m not the only one who believes it. If you don’t think there wouldn’t be a media frenzy over a sudden new face on the scene you’d be crazy. Whitmer, Newsom, or hey – how about Josh Shapiro who actually outperformed Biden himself in Pennsylvania…? If that’s really your concern, after all.

The window of time closes after the Convention. After that, we’re stuck.

I repeat: Biden is performing significantly worse in every single data-point compared to his 2020 run where he eeked a win by sliver. If he was up 20 points I wouldn’t even be saying a word. But after that debate performance seen by 50 million people? Every indicator for the election is only going to get worse for Biden.

Oh I agree, don’t get me wrong. But let’s be honest: Biden doesn’t have the grassroots fundraising that propelled Obama to victory and also gave Bernie a good shot at the primaries for how fringe he was.

Even I who’ve given loads of money in the past am exhausted by the fundraising calls under Biden and at this point post-debate think it’s a wasted investment.

I’m just assuaging concerns about money when you can substitute viral marketing which would naturally come from the unprecedented nature of having an incumbent president step down and endorse some other individual. Months of free coverage.

About 20% of voters say they have not picked a candidate in this year’s presidential race, are leaning toward third-party options or might not vote at all, according to the most recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Reuters interviewed 15 such voters ahead of Thursday’s debate, and they agreed to be interviewed again after the event about whether the debate changed their views.

The data wasn’t good before, and it doesn’t take a statistician to know they’re going to be as-bad or worse than before post-debate. I’ll happily take that bet with you and circle back in the coming weeks as state-wide polling proves this.

And how, qualitatively, did these focus groups triangulate where undecided voters are on the issue of who to vote for?

To properly employ a focus group, you would first need to poll an appropriate sample size of undecided voters then you target demographics within the sample to gain insight into why they answered their poll as they did.

Isn’t it quite probable they did exactly this? They certainly didn’t just pull these people off the streets. They had to aggregate undecided voters to begin with, after all.

I think it’s reaching for straws to suggest this isn’t saying what we already recognize from polling conducted in battleground states.

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About 20% of voters say they have not picked a candidate in this year’s presidential race, are leaning toward third-party options or might not vote at all, according to the most recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.

Reuters interviewed 15 such voters ahead of Thursday’s debate, and they agreed to be interviewed again after the event about whether the debate changed their views.

That’s a probable outcome, but it’s not the only possibility. Neither he nor unpledged delegates have an obligation to endorse Harris.

I think it’s nuts to NOT think it wouldn’t be a good thing. If it hasn’t occurred to people already, we already live in a circus. The excitement of this unprecedented scenario would yield widespread free viral ad time. Democrats are generally united on the objective: defeat Donald Trump. The only thing the convention would be about is: “Who can best defeat Donald Trump?” Which is perfectly fine.

So I’ll repeat what I wrote elsewhere. I think many are missing the opportunity for Democrats to seize the narrative:

• “We listened to voters who were unsatisfied with either candidate, a large majority who said age is a real concern for them.”
• “Joe Biden stepped down for the American People to let a younger generation lead.”
• FREE VIRAL MEDIA TIME for months on end about the fresh face of the Democratic party.
• A complete lack of developed right-wing talking-points to disseminate.

I’ll be honest: I think we’re absolutely fucked if we stick with BIden. He’s behind his 2020 stats in pretty much every way. THAT election was decided by 40,000 people across 3 contested states. Prospects were poor PRE-debate (Hence why Biden took the debate in the first place), and they’re even worse now. So I think the risk is worth taking.

Again, you don’t seem to understand the intent of focus groups or why they’re used by political campaigns. In a way focus groups are more akin to Case Studies, which are still extremely insightful.

Besides, we already have a broader set of polling data of battleground states, and what we see here is a reflection of those wider, scientific polls that didn’t bode well for Joe Biden even pre-Debate.

The mere fact that ANY random sample of undecided voters came away with these views, is downright dangerous.

I mean, are we humans really just this stupid?

Yes, yes we are. I feel your pain. I said it before and I’ll say it again: I would personally vote for a corpse, but it’s not me you have to convince.

And if I want to be slightly more kind and less impatient, many humans may mean well, but are so woefully uneducated and uninformed that they fall prey for the mass amount of right-wing misinformation from billions of dollars injected into the media-stream.

That would be interesting and I’m frankly open to it.

I don’t think people not voting is a big deal because frankly we didn’t have a legitimate primary season this cycle anyway. More importantly, if Biden himself voluntarily stepped down and endorsed someone else, then that at least channels those votes through Biden.

If I was a Republican strategist I’d be pushing supportive messages for Biden to ensure he stays in the race. Easy win.

The most dangerous thing for Republicans is Democrats garnering viral media attention and excitement by nominating a fresh new, younger face instead of the forcing voters to pick between two candidates the vast majority of Americans dislike.