ScalziJul 22, 2024

I've written a longish take on the last couple of days, including about how what looked like (and initially was) Democratic panic over Biden morphed somewhere along the way into a rope-a-dope strategy against the GOP, and whether Harris can win (spoiler: yup):

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/07/22/biden-harris-trump-and-2024/

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Biden, Harris, Trump and 2024

Slow news weekend, am I right? Some thoughts on the current state of things, in no particular order. 1. I was not a fan of the idea of Joe Biden leaving the race, and I still have my suspicions tha…

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Show threadThe Other BrookJul 22, 2024
@scalzi If someday we find out that you are right I wonder if we'll also find out that Biden's COVID diagnosis in the middle of the Republican convention was part of a misdirection strategy. I'm not saying I think it was but it would an interesting twist.
Show threadTodd HorowitzJul 22, 2024
@theotherbrook @scalzi That seems highly unlikely. Deception is not really Biden's style.
Show threadThe Other Brook
@toddhorowitz @scalzi I agree. And as I said, I'm not seriously putting the idea forward. But I also think that while the decision not to continue the campaign was Biden's, the decision on how best to announce it was very unlikely to have been his alone.
Jul 22, 2024 at 6:35pmWeb