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He's out: Yesterday around 2 p.m., President Joe Biden published a letter on X announcing some welcome but not altogether surprising news: He is suspending his campaign to be reelected president. This comes on the heels of his abysmal performance in the June 27 presidential debate, which, interesting, Biden's campaign had lobbied for. They wanted the first debate to be held earlier than tradition calls for, seemingly aiming to shake up the race (Biden was lagging in the polls) and to draw attention to Donald Trump's recent felony conviction. The debate succeeded at changing the race. Biden, on...
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In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman stare ever deeper into the abyss while recapping the hapless display at last week's first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. 01:50—Reactions to the Biden vs. Trump debate 21:43—Were any concrete policies discussed during the debate? 33:46—Weekly Listener Question 41:02—Supreme Court rules on Chevron deference 48:39—This week's cultural recommendations Mentioned in this podcast: "Sad Thoughts About American Politics," by Eugene Volokh "Joe Biden, Hot Mess," by ...
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Most coverage of last week's geriatric cage match of a debate focuses on the impact of Joe Biden's obvious cognitive and physical decline on his prospects as the Democratic presidential candidate. More important though, is that he is currently the U.S. president, supposedly exercising the (excessive) responsibilities of that office, including reacting to firestorms foreign and domestic in an increasingly crisis-rich environment. That he's clearly incapable of doing anything of the sort, and that many government officials obviously covered for his deficiencies, is disturbing and bodes poorly fo...
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Thursday's debate was an unmitigated disaster for Democrats. For perhaps the first time on a national debate stage, former President Donald Trump seemed relatively calm and articulate. In contrast, President Joe Biden was doddering, incoherent, and often seemed unable to string an intelligible sentence together. While questions surrounding Biden's cognitive abilities have already defined the 81-year-old president's campaign, any plausible deniability about his mental acuity was effectively destroyed by his abysmal performance on Thursday. While Biden's clear cognitive decline has dominated rea...
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By now, any interested person with an internet connection has seen President Joe Biden's uncomfortably poor showing in his first debate against former President Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential campaign season. Contrary to assurances that, behind closed doors, Biden is as sharp and lucid as ever, the president appeared frail and struggled to even make his most basic points for most of the 90-minute debate, renewing concerns about his age and mental fitness. Much of the ensuing news coverage involves the possibility of Democrats replacing Biden on the ticket in November. But whatever ulti...
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Look, nobody wants to see Vice President Kamala Harris as president. She's a cop in a past life, a flop as vice president, and as phony as they come, with enough political baggage to fill a few Acela trains. Her presidential campaign four years ago was an unmitigated dud, parlayed into the vice presidency only by the unique demands of 2020. But after last night's debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Harris' chances of soon holding top office—or at least getting the opportunity to battle Trump for it—skyrocketed. To say that the debate was disastrous for Biden i...
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At tonight's presidential debate, President Joe Biden made the shocking claim that under his administration, "We finally beat Medicare." It's a remarkable statement from a Democratic president. One would assume Biden would want to tout his preservation of entitlement programs—given that neither party (and particularly not the Democratic party) wants to seriously tackle entitlement reform. Instead, here is the president saying he finally "beat" the largest entitlement program of them all. Odd. The best explanation for Biden's remarks is that it was a passing gaffe. In fact, later in the debate,...
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Tonight's the night: President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will faceoff on the debate stage—though they might spend more time arguing with the moderators than with each other. CNN's Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are slated to grill the candidates, whose microphones will be muted when it's the other person's turn to speak. This means Trump and Biden won't be able to talk over each other—a good thing, broadly speaking—but they may not be able to engage in much cross-chatter at all. Under such conditions, the debate might simply feel like two separate interviews, with the candidates f...
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When Joe Biden and Donald Trump met on a debate stage in October 2020, the result was…something. The Washington Post called it "the worst presidential debate in living memory." For media analyst Tom Jones at Poynter, it was a "dumpster fire" full of "constant interruptions. Constant talking over one another. Name-calling. Juvenile bickering." A transcript of the debate reads like gibberish. Some commentators suggested that the planned rematch a few weeks later should be scrapped (it happened, but the moderators came armed with a mute button). One of the few positive reviews came from Reason's ...
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Climate unintended consequences: The Olympic Games, which start at the end of this week in Paris, were supposed to be some of the most environmentally friendly in the organization's history. The organizers had opted out of supplying air conditioning for athletes' rooms in the Olympic Village as a means of reducing the event's environmental footprint. Just one issue: Nobody wanted that, and many of the teams will in fact be bringing their own A.C. units. The event organizers had constructed an Olympic Village equipped with geothermal in-floor cooling systems. But highs in Paris at the end of Ju...
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