Prominent NYT Columnist Ezra Klein Tells Biden To Step Aside: ‘He Is Not Up For This’

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Prominent NYT Columnist Tells Biden To Step Aside: ‘He Is Not Up For This’
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Klein might as well run for president along with the pool of candidates he's proposing as a replacement, none of this I doable in the next 5 months.

none of this I doable in the next 5 months.

Then they're not truly serious about defeating Trump.

And the best candidate that can absolutely make it is...?

it's definitely a bit of a paradox, or simple "stuck" issue.

Biden definitely doesn't command confidence and energy as a candidate, but then any attempts to "replace" him would likely cause shockwaves of confusion/doubt in trying to quickly pick an overall agreeable person.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. We're 5 months away from elections and OP has no plan other than whine daily about Biden. That's not a good plan.

Harris/Warren or Harris/Newsom ticket.

Literally one day ago:

"Biden performs better against Trump than Harris, Newsom: Poll"

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4470956-biden-trump-harris-newsom-poll/

You're so invested in this, you don't even look to see if you're right.

If you get rid of Harris, that would be extremely bad. A Harris/Newsom ticket would at least be able to say they're younger than Trump.

I see that you liked what Ezra Klein had so say so much that you decided to post about it twice in a row.

Which is weird, because he doesn't seem to be saying anything new or original.

Telling Biden he's not up for it is how you guarantee Biden will never step down.

Biden should tell Klein to go fuck himself.

Or read the article/listen to the podcast and understand why he's calling for Biden to step down "as a hero".

If Trump winning a second term is the end of democracy as we know it, you would think the Dems would run somebody that's an absolute political beast to defeat Trump. Biden is not that. Just look at his last 15 minute press conference and you'd see that.

Is that “political beast” in the room with us right now?

I have been watching Biden since the 70’s and I understand what he stands for. I will vote based on that, not a short presser.

His Republican racist policies? Joe “I don't want my kids growing up in a jungle, a racial jungle” Biden?

“Voters believe Biden is too old for the job he seeks. He needs to persuade them otherwise, and he is failing at that task — arguably the central task of his re-election campaign.”

“There is a ton of talent in the Democratic Party right now: Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore, Jared Polis, Gavin Newsom, Raphael Warnock, Josh Shapiro, Cory Booker, Ro Khanna, Pete Buttigieg, Gina Raimondo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chris Murphy, Andy Beshear, J.B. Pritzker — the list goes on,” he says.

The concept may seem foreign to modern voters, he writes, but it was commonplace for presidential nominations up until the 1970s, with both Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt winning nominations in similar ways.

Just run Taylor Swift already, she’s probably end up doing a great job and flying less.

Win win.

I voted for Shapiro twice and I was suckered both times. there is no way I'm voting for him again.