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Scott Smith's avatar

The media seems to constantly play this game with Democrats. Obama's "57 states" was fodder, despite everyone knowing what he was saying. trump does non-stop gaffes. I dare any of these reporters to take the transcript of one of his klan rallies and not find multiple ones. Hell, just yesterday, Rick Santelli thought infecting everyone with COVID-19 was a good idea to help "calm the markets". Advocating the death of, at least, 130,000 Americans to try to help his stock portfolio seems like a pretty big gaffe.

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Theodora30's avatar

I think the focus on the gaffes are a problem for Biden because a lot of people take it as evidence that he is losing it because of his age. The media ought to make it clear that Biden has always done this kind of thing. Younger voters are not always aware of that fact and I have had conversations with some of them explaining that this tendency is not proof of Biden becoming senile. Granted it is hard to see it being a big issue if he is running against Trump but it could hurt him with voters trying to decide between him and Bernie who doesn’t have that problem.

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