Edited- It could get worse but now Biden has Covid

It could get worse, but please don't be thinking that! We need him to be healthy as much as an 81 year old man can be. Being on the campaign trail and already having a weakened immune system from that cold before the debate. They are saying it's a mild case, so hopefully he takes it easy.

Apparently it can and it will get worse. The whole enchilada. I'm sick over what has happened to our country.


Imagine you attend a political rally and your husband is murdered right in front of you and your kids but you won't take the President of the United States' phone call because your husband supported the other guy.

It's sick. It's tragic that we are throwing away our rich freedoms

Did you see him trying to get up the steps into the airplane. I bet he doesn’t have a mild case of Covid. We’re screwed with whoever gets elected.

I swear I thought he was going to fall backwards when I saw this on the news.


www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/us/politics/biden-covid-positive.html

1.  Whatever you want us to see you either need to have an account or need to create one.

2.  May I suggest you watch America’s Funniest Videos to see how many different ways folks of all ages find ways to end up falling flat on their face.  It’s really amazing.

Yes, they’re still trying to get him to step down. Some of them want someone other than Harris, which would cause huge problems. I keep asking if there is an actual plan, because it doesn’t look as if there is. Who knows what will happen in the next few weeks?

I’ll be glad when this year is over.

What decision?
Joe Biden is the nominee.
If it changes now, the election belongs to DT.

I am sure Biden has kept up with vaccinations, so he should have a light case. Of course I am concerned but I am sure he will recover.

Me too Biden, me too.

Hope he gets over it soon!

I had COVID last week for the third time. Vaxxed and boosted but this strain was the worst I had it. Terrible fever and chills and to say I was exhausted is an understatement. Beyond fatigued. It lasted about 5 days, but honestly the fatigue was terrible. I think this strain is hard hitting and extremely contagious.
I hope Biden feels better soon.

I have no problem voting for VP Harris as the next President. And if she is going up against trump, she has a fairly good chance. Hillary beat him in the popular vote, just not the electoral vote. But even that was close. He certainly didn't run away with the election. He barely made it.

Since he ran back in 2016, his popularity has dropped. Yes, he still has the rabid support of clueless fucks who want to take the country back to the 1950s, and know that trump is malleable enough to do that. However, I really believe that there are more who are disillusioned with him. If it comes down to the President having to step down, I feel the more rational people would get behind the Vice President. I just don't know how many really rational people there are out there. Some will never vote trump, but may not vote for VP Harris or vote at all. And that could be disastrous.

The Democrats have a great 'bench' of electable candidates. As on NYTimes commenter put it, Joe Biden is the one Democrat who can't beat Donald Trump. Biden was losing before the debate and any chance he had of getting reelected ended with the debate performance. Republican PACs will air clips from that debate over and over from the convention to election day. The only President in modern history to come back from bad polling numbers at this stage and win was George W. Bush in 2004. Biden's situation looks a lot more like Carter and George H.W. Bush who both lost relections.

The only chance we have of keeping Trump from winning and hanging onto the Senate is to replace Biden.

I don’t know how representative it is, but a huge majority of the comments I see on social media and what I hear people saying in person is that they will vote for Biden despite thinking he is too old.

I think it is interesting that the republicans have never been pressured to replace Trump. Surely if so many thought Biden was unfit any of their other candidates would fare better than Trump. He has a a strong following but there are a LOT of never trumpers and others who want “anyone younger”.

I believe that anyone who is going to vote for Biden will still vote for him. I think they would also vote for whomever the Democratic nominee is.

The issue is the large number of undecided voters. Do you really think that people who aren't committed now are going to vote for an 81 year old when they are blasted with repeated images of his frailty? He has a good record but he isn't up to the task of defending it and the duties of the presidency at the same time. There are many people who think he isn't up to the duties of the presidency. I disagree. I think he can easily finish his current term but I don't believe he can win over undecided voters and turn this around.

One or two polls might be wrong but all of them??? He was far ahead in the polls throughout 2020 and it was still close in swing states in the end. Trump did better than polls in both 2016 and 2020. There's no reason to believe that he will suddenly start performing worse - in some cases as much as 5 points worse this year.