The 2024 runner-up is weighing a 2028 bid that evokes dread in the vast majority of Democratic operatives and donors. Why? Aidan McLaughlin spoke with more than two dozen of them to find out—and get a sense of her deliberations behind the scenes.
He said he was only going to do one term really early on. Then once in office, that pipe dream evaporated. It was pretty much just some remarks during the campaign against Trump.
As for pulling it off, he probably could have, just barely. Not that he had any more enthusiasm from anyone, but he would have kept a bigger part of the elderly vote who knew him well. At least if were able to stand up on stage with Trump and be lucid. My bet is that could only happen with a fairly heavy drug cocktail, that would lead to serious health problems fairly quickly. He fell apart right after the election anyway, so it very well might have killed him on the spot.
He said he was only going to do one term really early on.
No, he never said that. Anonymous people said that they thought he would, and when journalists immediately asked Biden he said he had no plans for running one term. No one remembers what Biden said, and for some reason take as gospel what anonymous people thought someone else would do.
They’re not going to have video because he never said that.
It stems from this Politico article in which anonymous people express their personal opinions about what someone else should do and for some reason everyone believes it was Biden personally making a pledge.
It was anonymous members of his campaign. They never said it on camera because he never wanted to take a position on it, and no one really pressed it enough.
I firmly believe he would have stayed out if Trump hadn’t been on the ticket. All they needed to do was have a justice department willing to put his ass away and Joe would have gone “My work here is done!” and rode off into the sunset.
He said he was only going to do one term really early on. Then once in office, that pipe dream evaporated. It was pretty much just some remarks during the campaign against Trump.
As for pulling it off, he probably could have, just barely. Not that he had any more enthusiasm from anyone, but he would have kept a bigger part of the elderly vote who knew him well. At least if were able to stand up on stage with Trump and be lucid. My bet is that could only happen with a fairly heavy drug cocktail, that would lead to serious health problems fairly quickly. He fell apart right after the election anyway, so it very well might have killed him on the spot.
No, he never said that. Anonymous people said that they thought he would, and when journalists immediately asked Biden he said he had no plans for running one term. No one remembers what Biden said, and for some reason take as gospel what anonymous people thought someone else would do.
I’ve heard this repeated so many times yet I’ve never heard those words come out of his mouth. Do you have a video?
They’re not going to have video because he never said that.
It stems from this Politico article in which anonymous people express their personal opinions about what someone else should do and for some reason everyone believes it was Biden personally making a pledge.
It was anonymous members of his campaign. They never said it on camera because he never wanted to take a position on it, and no one really pressed it enough.
I firmly believe he would have stayed out if Trump hadn’t been on the ticket. All they needed to do was have a justice department willing to put his ass away and Joe would have gone “My work here is done!” and rode off into the sunset.
And who’s fucking fault was that?!