• bostonbananarama@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    if she was the one who ultimately succeeded in getting Biden to drop out when he did, then isn’t it reasonable to expect that he would have dropped out earlier if she had pushed him out earlier?

    No. His debate performance is what pushed it over the edge. That’s when a concerted effort began to get him out.

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      2 months ago

      You’re right, but I think it was a combo.

      October 7th spilled a bunch of gasoline on the ground. (Almost immediately after that day his polling trailed Trump’s.)

      His debate performance dropped a lit cigarette.

      In my opinion, you really needed both of those things for him to drop out. A physically struggling Biden that’s polling at 60% would’ve stayed in the race. A Biden with an excellent debate performance that was polling at 45% would’ve stayed in the race.

      EDIT: typo