Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: As he campaigns for president, Joe Biden tells a moving but false war story [View all]SaschaHM
(2,897 posts)If there's anything that will cause him to tumble from being the frontrunner, it's things like this. Mixing up one or two details is fine, but this just looks concerning.
With Trump, you can just dismiss something like this as an outright lie meant to boost his credibility. With VP Biden, you can't do that. I don't doubt his sincerity or honesty when he's telling a story like this multiple times. That becomes a problem when just about every detail in the story is wrong and you don't think he's making it up.
Idk if it's campaign or candidate discipline, but there has to be some type of review for stories/speeches like this before we hit the general.
He's going to make mistakes. He's human. However, unfortunately, there's a threshold before they become a cause of concern. Then again, the country might just be sick enough of Trump that they put someone in office regardless of the terrible things that the GOP is going to say about his mental health while using things like this as evidence. We'll see if this just becomes a blip in the campaign concern.
Don't give them the ammunition because we know that the press is going to bite.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden