Harris: Reluctance to pressure Biden out of 2024 was 'recklessness'

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24. Respectfully,

Biden was running tied in NY, which suggests that he'd need to spend money and time there, and NY ain't cheap.

I believe there were polls with Trump ahead 10 points in Virginia and other weird stuff like New Hampshire. Biden did not have a path to victory and all that was before the debate.

You are quite correct that it is every candidate's decision, and this is why we have primaries - and that we (kinda sorta) did, and we voted for Biden. It is an ethical inconsistency I cannot square within myself.

However -- while I do not believe that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia or was in mental decline, I do think he demonstrated that he was ill equipped to fight back against that narrative, and thus was rendered nonviable. Further, his seeming inability to conceive of this deficiency suggests (to me) a type of arrogance that was anathema to the Joe Biden I had known.