IMBW Audio: A Very Special Episode: Biden's Implosion and What Comes Next

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IMBW Audio: A Very Special Episode: Biden's Implosion and What Comes Next

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Jeff Maurer

Jun 30, 2024

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If You Can’t Communicate, You Can’t Run for President

Jeff Maurer

Jun 28

If You Can’t Communicate, You Can’t Run for President

The spectacle after the spectacle last night was watching Democratic operatives — who are professionals with a job to do — try to spin Biden’s performance. Imagine executives from the Graf Zeppelinworks watching the fiery wreckage of the Hindenburg crash to earth, and then turning to their PR person and saying: “Go out there and tell everyone that the blimp is fine.” That was the task for professional hacks last night. An extra layer of surrealism was added by the fact that some of the people arguing the unarguable were people who might replace Biden on the ticket — Gavin Newsom had to

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If Not Biden, Who?

Jeff Maurer

October 20, 2023

Count me among those who think that it’s risky for Democrats to go all-in on Joe Biden in 2024. I like Biden, but he’s older than wool underwear, and I worry that he won’t stay cogent through 2029. And polls show that a lot of people have the same concern.

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