Joe Biden Is Old
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🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week on Politix, Matt and Brian discuss:
* The Robert Hur report, and the fire storm the special counsel ignited with his rule-breaking, partisan attack on Biden;
* How Biden could in theory alleviate concerns that he’s too old to be both president and candidate simultaneously—and why his advisers haven’t really tried;
* The extent to which Biden’s age really is limiting his ability to throw his weight around in the partisan mosh pit, even if it isn’t limiting his ability to govern at all;
* Whether polls on this question, and on the question of how well alternate candidates would fare, are useful at all;
* The Kamala Harris factor—is her consistently weak polling against Trump freezing a dysfunctional situation in place?
* How Biden’s politics of restoring norms and magnanimity has compounded (and in the case of the Hur appointment, created) his old-man woes.
Since this is a news-pegged episode about a consequential and unexpected development in the campaign, we’ve made it free to all subscribers.
Further reading:
* Brian demands candor from the party and the Biden campaign about why they think things are going so much worse than they anticipated when they put their strategy in motion.
* He also argues that most fears about what would happen if Biden stepped aside in favor of an alternate are misplaced.
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| 0:00.0 | Biden sticks with the status quo. |
| 0:02.3 | And then the day before the convention, |
| 0:05.2 | he just like, chaotically withdraws |
| 0:06.8 | at the last minute. |
| 0:08.1 | And then you have a completely unstructured floor fight. |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah, that'd be fun. |
| 0:11.8 | I mean, right, like that would be. You could. I mean, you could order Seal Team 6 to murder Donald Trump and then I'll just, I just won't care who wins |
| 0:19.6 | the election anymore for the most part. Hello and welcome to a special free episode of Politics, the podcast. I'm Brian Boiler. |
| 0:32.0 | And I'm Brian Boiler. |
| 0:32.5 | And I'm Matthew Glacius. |
| 0:33.5 | And that's Susan over my left shoulder. |
| 0:37.0 | So after last week's episode, |
| 0:41.0 | something pretty consequential happen in politics you probably |
| 0:43.6 | heard. There's a prosecutor named Robert Herr who was a senior Trump |
| 0:49.2 | Justice Department official who Merritt Garland the current attorney general in his infinite wisdom, appointed |
| 0:56.5 | to be special counsel to investigate how classified documents ended up in Joe Biden's archives. |
| 1:04.8 | And so he released his report last week. |
| 1:07.6 | And it found no basis to charge anyone with a crime. |
| 1:10.6 | He even noted in his report how much more ethically Biden had conducted himself when he discovered these documents than Donald Trump did with the documents he like hid at Maralago. But Robert her also took these gratuitous pot shots at |
| 1:29.9 | Biden for being old and forgetful. |
| 1:33.1 | And he even like conjured a scenario where he imagined |
| 1:36.1 | a jury would be unwilling to convict Joe Biden of anything |
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